Table of contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Hospitalised near drownings
    • Data source
    • Identifying hospitalisations due to near drownings
    • Profile
      • Age and sex
      • Circumstances of near drowning
      • Diagnoses
      • Procedures
      • Outcome
  • Persisting morbidity among hospitalised near drownings
    • Defining persisting morbidity
    • Identifying 'probable' persisting morbidity cases
    • Profile
      • Age and sex
      • Circumstances of near drowning
      • Diagnoses
      • Procedures
      • Length of stay
      • Separation mode
  • Data issues
    • Data sources
    • Selection criteria
    • Hospitalised cases vs other cases
    • Errors, inconsistencies and uncertainty in the data
    • Calculation of rates
    • Transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-AM
  • Other sources of information
    • Methods
    • Results
      • Trauma registries
      • The Australian Spinal Cord Injury Register
  • Summary
    • Hospitalised near drownings
    • Persisting morbidity among near drowning cases
    • Other data sources
  • References
  • Appendices