Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Executive summary
- Overview of findings
- Unintentional falls
- Poisoning by drugs
- Poisoning by other substances
- Inhalation of gastric contents, food or other object
- Sequelae of external causes
- Certification of death and Underlying cause of death
- Conclusions
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Multiple causes of death
- 1.2 Public health significance of Multiple causes of death information
- 1.3 Project aims
- 2 Methods
- 2.1 Operational definition of injury
- 2.2 ABS coding practices
- 2.3 ABS mortality data
- 2.4 National Coroners Information System
- 2.5 Linked data
- 2.6 Literature search
- 3 Findings
- 3.1 Operational definition of injury
- 3.2 ABS mortality coding
- 3.3 ABS data analyses
- 3.3.1 Overview
- 3.3.2 Unintentional falls
- 3.3.3 Poisoning by drugs
- 3.3.4 Poisoning by other substances
- 3.3.5 Inhalations
- 3.3.6 Sequelae of external causes
- 3.4 Literature review
- 4 Discussion
- 4.1 Aspects of MCoD data relevant to injury surveillance
- 4.1.1 What is an injury?
- 4.1.2 Certification of death
- 4.1.3 Data analyses
- 4.1.4 Data systems and sources
- 4.2 Potential for using MCoD information
- 4.2.1 Falls
- 4.2.2 Unintentional poisoning by drugs
- 4.2.3 Unintentional poisoning by other substances
- 4.2.4 Inhalations
- 4.2.5 Sequelae of external causes
- 4.1 Aspects of MCoD data relevant to injury surveillance
- 5 Conclusions
- Appendix 1: Data issues
- Data sources
- ABS deaths data
- Coronial data
- Western Australian linked data
- Age adjustment
- Confidence intervals
- ABS deaths data
- Case definition
- ABS deaths data
- Data quality
- ABS data
- National Coroners Information System
- Drugs flag
- Data sources
- Appendix 2: Falls data extracted from NCIS
- Appendix 3: Operational definition of injury coding scheme showing mapping from STIPDA coding scheme
- Appendix 4: Case scenarios coded by the Australian Bureau of Statistics
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures