Spinal cord injury, Australia, 2003-04

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Release Date: 20 Jan 2006

Topic: Injury

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Severe spinal cord injury (SCI) is a very debilitating injury. Australia was the first country to implement a national population-based register to enable surveillance of SCI cases to help prevent and control this problem. This report provides information on case registrations for the year 2003-04.

ISSN: 1444 3791
ISBN: 978 1 74024 521 0
Cat. no: INJ 77
Pages: 46

Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
Sections
1. Introduction
2. Overview of SCI case registrations in 2003-04
3. Incidence of persisting SCI in 2003-04
  - Trends in persisting SCI
  - State or territory of usual residence
  - Age and sex distribution
  - Marital status and unemployment
4. Factors associated with the SCI event
  - External cause of injury
    - Motor vehicle occupants
    - Unprotected road users
    - Falls
    - Water related
    - Sports related
    - Other causes
5. Trends in external causes of persisting SCI
  - Trends in persisting SCI.
  - Motor vehicle crashes
  - SCI due to falls
6. Clinical characteristic of persisting SCI cases
  - Neurological level of injury
  - Neurologic category
  - Duration of initial care
7. References
8. Glossary
End matter
- Appendix 1
  - Structure and operation of ASCIR
  - Data issues
  - Scope of SCI case registration data
  - Rates
  - Confidence intervals
  - Trend analysis of external causes of SCI

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