Year of injury† |
2005 or earlier | 2570 (13.3) |
2006 | 3272 (16.9) |
2007 | 3496 (18.1) |
2008 | 3285 (17) |
2009 | 3416 (17.7) |
2010 | 3290 (17) |
Primary injury type |
Missing | 1 (0) |
Blunt | 18 064 (93.4) |
Penetrating | 950 (4.9) |
Burns | 323 (1.7) |
Nature of injury or external cause of injury, code |
Land transport incidents | 8911 (46.1) |
Water transport incidents | 56 (0.3) |
Air and space transport incidents | 33 (0.2) |
Unintentional falls | 6837 (35.4) |
Mechanical forces | 996 (5.2) |
Unintentional drowning, submersion or other unintentional threats to breathing | 17 (0.1) |
Exposure to electric current, radiation and extreme ambient air temperature and pressure | 15 (0.1) |
Exposure to smoke, fire and flames | 253 (1.3) |
Contact with heat and hot substances | 42 (0.2) |
Exposure to forces of nature | 10 (0.1) |
Intentional self-harm, excluding poisoning | 322 (1.7) |
Assault, excluding poisoning | 1611 (8.3) |
Legal intervention and operations of war | 28 (0.1) |
Other‡ | 207 (1.1) |
Intentional injury |
Missing | 154 (0.8) |
Unintentional | 17 202 (89) |
Self-inflicted | 439 (2.3) |
Homicide or assault | 1543 (8) |
Place of injury |
Missing | 105 (0.5) |
Home | 4841 (25) |
Residential institution | 284 (1.5) |
School or other institution or public area | 426 (2.2) |
Sports or athletics area | 409 (2.1) |
Street or highway | 8569 (44.3) |
Trade or service area | 476 (2.5) |
Industrial or construction area | 542 (2.8) |
Farm | 215 (1.1) |
Other specified place of occurrence | 1148 (5.9) |
Unspecified place of occurrence | 2323 (12) |
Injury severity score |
9–15 | 1917 (10.1) |
16–24 | 9076 (47.7) |
25–40 | 6852 (36) |
41–49 | 814 (4.3) |
50–75 | 369 (1.9) |
Injury severity score on arrival to trauma hospital, median (IQR) | 21 (16–26) |
Received any trauma surgery | 5398 (27.9) |
Received any general surgery procedure | 1020 (5.3) |
Received any cardiothoracic surgery procedure | 188 (1) |
Received any neurosurgery procedure | 2558 (13.2) |
Received any orthopedic surgery procedure | 1943 (10.1) |
If received surgery, no. of trauma surgeries, mean (SD) | 1.2 (0.6) |
Ventilator duration |
1 d | 375 (2) |
2+ d | 1106 (5.8) |
Not ventilated | 17 547 (92.2) |
If ventilated, no. of days, median (IQR) | 3 (1–10) |
Length of stay at lead trauma hospital, median (IQR) | 8 (4–17) |
Length of episode of care | 11 (6–23) |
Disposition |
Home | 9038 (47.5) |
Home with support | 2163 (11.4) |
Another acute care facility | 3214 (16.9) |
General rehabilitation facility | 1724 (9.1) |
Chronic care facility | 236 (1.2) |
Nursing home | 404 (2.1) |
Special rehabilitation facility | 1572 (8.3) |
Other§ | 677 (3.6) |