Spinal cord injury, Australia, 2003-04

Spinal cord injury, Australia, 2003-04

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Injury research and statistics series no. 25

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.

Authored by Cripps R.

Published 20 January 2006; ISSN 1444 3791; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 521 0; AIHW cat. no. INJ 77; 46pp.; $30.00


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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (126K PDF)
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
  • Sections (324K PDF)
    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  (253K PDF)
    • 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