NEISS Law and Legal Definition
NEISS is the abbreviation for the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, an organ of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The NEISS is a database that contains national probability sample of hospitals in the U.S. and its territories. Patient information is collected from each NEISS hospital for every emergency visit involving an injury associated with consumer products. From this sample, the total number of product-related injuries treated in hospital emergency rooms nationwide can be estimated.
The following is an example of a federal regulation referring to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System:
16 CFR 1000.26 Directorate for Epidemiology.
The Directorate for Epidemiology, managed by the Associate Executive Director for Epidemiology, is responsible for the collection and analysis of data on injuries and deaths associated with consumer products. The Directorate has two divisions: the Data Systems Division and the Hazard Analysis Division. The Data Systems Division operates the national data collection systems which provide the data that serve as the basis for the Commission's estimates of the numbers of deaths and injuries
