Table of contents

  • Contents
  • Executive summary
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction 
    • Hospital separations data 
    • Selecting injury and poisoning cases 
  • Results
    • Age and sex distribution  
    • External causes 
    • Place and Activity  
    • Diagnoses 
    • Length of stay 
    • Separation mode  
    • States and Territories 
    • Trends over time 
  • Data issues
    • Data source 
    • Confidence intervals  
    • Selection criteria  
    • Hospitalised cases vs other cases 
    • Errors, inconsistencies and uncertainties 
    • Calculation of rates 
    • Transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-1O-AM 
  • References 
  • Appendices