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Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus, or ‘golden staph’) bloodstream infections (SABSI) associated with hospital care can be serious, particularly when bacteria are resistant to common antimicrobials.

In 2019–20, all states and territories had public hospital SABSI rates below the national benchmark of 2.0 cases per 10,000 patient days.

Over the past 5 years, the SABSI rate has fluctuated at around 0.7, for instance, 0.74 in 2015–16 and 0.71 in 2019–20.

In 2016–17, almost 60,000 people were hospitalised for sports injuries. Males were more than twice as likely to be hospitalised as females. For males, the sports that most frequently led to hospitalisation were football (all codes) (38%), cycling (12%) and wheeled motor sports (8%). For females, they were football (15%), netball (10%; 13% when combined with basketball) and equestrian activities (11%).