Type of injury
In 2019–20 poisoning or toxic effect (7,700 cases), followed by fractures (6,500 cases) and open wounds (4,800 cases) were the most common alcohol-related hospitalised injuries (Table 7).
The rate of alcohol-related hospitalised injuries varied between sexes where (Table 7):
- females were 1.2 times as likely to have a poisoning or toxic effect as males (33 per 100,000 and 27 per 100,000, respectively)
- males were almost twice as likely to sustain a fracture as females (33 per 100,000 and 18 per 100,000, respectively)
- males were 2.7 times as likely to sustain an intracranial injury as females (13 per 100,000 and 4.8 per 100,000, respectively).
|
Injury type |
Males number |
Males rate |
Females number |
Females rate |
Persons number |
Persons rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Poisoning or toxic effect |
3,453 |
27.3 |
4,201 |
32.7 |
7,658 |
30.0 |
|
Fracture |
4,222 |
33.4 |
2,244 |
17.5 |
6,467 |
25.4 |
|
Open Wound |
3,034 |
24.0 |
1,743 |
13.6 |
4,777 |
18.7 |
|
Amputation |
1,972 |
15.6 |
1,227 |
9.6 |
3,199 |
12.5 |
|
Intracranial Injury |
1,617 |
12.8 |
620 |
4.8 |
2,237 |
9.0 |
|
Superficial injury |
1,166 |
9.2 |
880 |
6.9 |
2,046 |
8.0 |
|
Crushing injuries |
1,226 |
9.7 |
762 |
5.9 |
1,988 |
7.8 |
|
Soft-Tissue Injury |
498 |
3.9 |
213 |
1.7 |
711 |
2.8 |
|
Nerve injury |
334 |
2.6 |
101 |
0.8 |
435 |
1.7 |
|
Dislocation |
181 |
1.4 |
92 |
0.7 |
273 |
1.1 |
|
Burn |
160 |
1.3 |
73 |
0.6 |
233 |
0.9 |
|
Total |
17,863 |
141.2 |
12,156 |
94.7 |
30,024 |
117.8 |
Note: Rates are age-standardised per 100,000 population.
Source: AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database.
For more detailed data, see Data tables A24–25.