Spinal cord injury, Australia, 2016–17

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Release Date: 26 Feb 2020

Author: AIHW

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020. Spinal cord injury, Australia, 2016–17. Cat. no. INJCAT 209. Canberra: AIHW.

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A total of 227 newly incident cases of traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) due to external causes were reported to the Australian Spinal Cord Injury Register for 2016–17. The majority (80%) of these were males. Land transport crashes (39%) and falls (39%) were most often reported as the cause of traumatic SCI.

ISSN: 2205-510X
ISBN: 978-1-76054-663-2
Cat. no: INJCAT 209
Pages: 60

Findings from this report:

Males outnumber females by over 4:1 for traumatic SCI
There were 227 new cases of traumatic SCI among people aged 15 and over in 2016–17
The rate of persisting traumatic SCI among people aged 15 and over in 2016–17 was 11 cases per million
Land transport crashes were the leading cause of traumatic SCI, closely followed by falls

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