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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Hospital separations due to injury and poisoning

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released a series of reports on this topic.  In the most recent information, from 2008-2009, a total of 412,985 injury cases required hospitalisation during the 12 months (239,345 males and 173,637 females). Overall rates of injury were higher among people aged 65 and over, and lower in children aged 0-14. The leading causes of hospitalised injury were unintentional falls (38% of cases), followed by transport accidents (14%).
Click on the links below for the three most recent reports.




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