What is WISQARSTM Fatal?
WISQARSTM (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System, pronounced “whiskers”) Fatal is an interactive database system that provides injury-related mortality data useful for research and for making informed public health decisions. WISQARS offers three types of reports: mortality reports, leading causes of death reports, and years of potential life lost reports (YPPL). Injury mortality reports provide number of injury deaths and death rates for specific external causes of injuries. Leading causes of death reports provide the number of injury-related deaths relative to the number of other leading causes of death in the United States or in individual states. Years of potential life lost (YPLL) reports compare premature mortality (early death) between different causes of death.
