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| Annual Performance Measures This information provided by the Injury & Violence Prevention Program of the Office of Disease Prevention & Epidemiology. What We Are Doing The NVDRS in Oregon collects data from several data sources: Oregon Medical Examiners' reports, Oregon Crime Lab reports, Oregon Law Enforcement Data System Uniform Crime reports, the Homicide Incident Tracking System, local law enforcement reports, Death Certificates, and Child Fatality Review reports. The NVDRS (National Violent Death Reporting System) is being developed in Oregon through a five-year cooperative agreement with The Centers for Disease Control (CDC). This program will collect information from many data sources and compile incident-based cases for all violent deaths in Oregon in order to generate public health information on violent deaths and to develop violence prevention strategies. This project is collaborating with multiple state agencies and with other Injury Prevention programs. This data collection system collects data from the seven sources described above to compile incident-based case files on all homicides, suicides, legal interventions, and firearm deaths occurring in Oregon. Goals The goals of the project are to develop an incident-based relational database that collects and links data on violent deaths from multiple sources; to generate public health information on violent deaths at national, state, and local levels that is more detailed, useful, and timely than information currently available; and to help develop, inform, and evaluate violence prevention strategies at both state and national levels. Current states participating in NVDRS are Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Resources Reference Card: Suicide Circumstances for Death Scene Investigations (pdf) More NVDRS Information from CDC | |
