Table of contents

  • Key findings
  • Hospitalisations, Australia, 2000–01 to 2002–03
  • Age and sex
  •  Principal body region injured
  • Nature of injury
  •  Length of stay in hospital
  •  Bitten by dog versus being struck by dog
  •  States and territories
  •  Place of occurrence
  •  Remoteness
  •  Deaths, Australia 1997–2003
  • Other studies
  • Discussion
  • References
  • Data issues