Use of multiple causes of death data for identifying and reporting injury mortality

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Publication 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
• 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
• 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