Hospital separations due to injury and poisoning, Australia 2005-06

Renate Kreisfeld
James Harrison

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Canberra
AIHW cat. no. INJCAT 131

This report provides statistics on hospitalised cases of injury in Australia in 2005-06. In that year:

• more than 370,000 cases of hospitalised injury occurred in the community,
• these comprised 5.5% of episodes in hospital due to all causes,
• accidental falls (36%), transport crashes (14%), assault (6%) and intentional self harm (6%) were the main causes of the injuries.

The report is available as a PDF document (~5,268 Kb).

Notes and corrections:

• Page iv, Summary, paragraph 4, lines 3-4: Poisoning by other substances was incorrectly described as showing an upward trend.
• Page 30, third paragraph after Table 2.3.1: Incorrect values were given for other and unspecified transport for males and females.
• Page 33, Table 2.3.3: The last four categories of vehicle type were mislabelled.
• Page 49, second paragraph after Table 2.4.1: References to three chapter numbers were incorrect.
• Page 53, Table 2.4.4: The column containing data on age group 45-64 years was mislabelled.
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