Data Sources: Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
Population estimates from the Florida Legislature, Office of Economic and Demographic Research have been allocated by race based on information from the US Bureau of the Census and form the foundation for rates displayed in this report.
Data Notes:
Suicide is death caused by injuring oneself with the intent to die.
Intentional self-harm is injury or poisoning inflicted on oneself by deliberate means with the intent to harm oneself or with the intent to take one's own life. Not all intentional self-harm injuries are suicide attempts.
Non-fatal events (hospitalizations and emergency department visits) are suppressed when there are 1-4 cases. Therefore, age groups for living versus deceased persons differ to optimize display of data.
Rates provided are crude rates, age-specific to the age range specified, per 100,000 population.
Data are shown by county of residence. Florida data are for Florida residents.
Totals exceed the sum of the rows when the data contain unknown ages.
Deaths:
Suicide deaths for ages 0 to 9 are not included in this report due to a child’s inability to form or understand suicidal intent.
Suicides by firearms discharge ICD-10 Code(s): X72-X74 as underlying cause of death.
Suicides by drug poisoning ICD-10 Code(s): X60-X64 as underlying cause of death.
Suffocation - Suicides by hanging, strangulation, or suffocation ICD-10 Code(s): X70 as underlying cause of death.
Suicides by non-drug poisoning ICD-10 Code(s): X65-X69 as underlying cause of death.
Suicides by cut/pierce ICD-10 Code(s): X78 as underlying cause of death.
Suicide deaths by other mechanisms: all other injury mechanisms are combined in this category.
Hospitalizations and ED Visits:
Due to the transition of ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM, hospitalization and ED data are presented starting in 2016.
Veteran Affairs (VA) and other federal hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and psychiatric hospitals are not included in this report. Rates are not calculated when there are less than 5 cases.
Hospitalizations and ED visits are limited to cases where the principal diagnosis is any ICD-10 injury code (S00-S99, T07-T34, T36.9/T37.9/T39.9/T41.4/T42.7/T43.9/T45.9/T47.9/T49.9 with 5th character of 1-4, T36-T50 with 6th character of 1-4, T51-T76, T79, O9A.2-O9A.5, T84.04, M97; 7th character of A, B, C, or blank). The mechanism of injury was determined if the following ICD-10 codes were listed as the principal diagnosis, any other diagnosis, or any external cause of injury.
Intentional self-harm ICD-10-CM Code(s): T14.91, T36-T50 with 6th character of 2, T36.9/T37.9/T39.9/T41.4/T42.7/T43.9/T45.9/T47.9/T49.9 with 5th character of 2, T51-T65 with 6th character of 2, T51.9/T52.9/T53.9/T54.9/T56.9/T57.9/T58.0/T58.1/T58.9/T59.9/T60.9/T61.0/T61.1/T61.9/T62.9/T63.9/T64.0/T64.8/T65.9 with 5th character of 2, T71 with 6th character of 2, X71-X83 as any diagnosis or external cause of injury.
Intentional self-harm by firearm ICD-10-CM Code(s): X72, X73, X74.8, X74.9 as any diagnosis or external cause of injury.
Intentional self-harm by drug poisoning ICD-10-CM Codes(s): T36-T50 with 6th character of 2, T36.9, T37.9, T39.9, T41.4, T42.7, T43.9, T45.9, T47.9, and T49.9 with 5th character of 2 as any diagnosis or external cause of injury.
Intentional self-harm by suffocation ICD-10-CM Code(s): T71 with 6th character of 2 as any diagnosis or external cause of injury.
Intentional self-harm by cut / pierce ICD-10-CM Code(s): X78 as any diagnosis or external cause of injury.
Intentional self-harm by non-drug poisoning ICD-10-CM Code(s): T51-T65 with 6th character of 2, T51.9/T52.9/T53.9/T54.9/T56.9/T57.9/T58.0/T58.1/T58.9/T59.9/T60.9/T61.0/T61.1/T61.9/T62.9/T63.9/T64.0/T64.8/T65.9 with a 5th character of 2 as any diagnosis or external cause of injury.
Intentional self-harm by other mechanisms: all other injury mechanisms are combined in this category.
Injury mechanisms for non-fatal intentional self-harm are mutually exclusive, but more than one type of injury may occur in an ED visit or hospitalization.
Non-fatal intentional self-harm categories are derived from the injury subset definition.
Data may contain multiple hospitalizations or ED visits for the same person/injury event due to hospital transfers, readmissions, and follow-up visits. Therefore, the data reflects the number of hospitalizations or ED visits and not the number of people injured.
Data for specific mechanisms of injury may be underestimated due to incomplete reporting of the external cause of injury.