Table of contents

  • Preliminary materials
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Executive summary
  • Sections
    • 1) Introduction
    • 2) Incidence
      • Age and sex
      • Injury type
      • Fractures
      • Geographical distribution
    • 3) Circumstances of fall injury incident cases
      • Place of occurrence
      • Activity
      • Procedures involved in incident cases
    • 4) Fall injury inward transfers
    • 5) The burden of injury due to falls
      • Fall-related follow-up care
      • 'Other fall-related' separations
      • Length of stay
      • Costs
    • 6) Discussion
      • Falls injuries and circumstances
      • The burden of fall-related injury
  • End matter
    • Data issues
      • Data sources
      • ICD-10-AM
      • Selection criteria
      • Calculation of rates
      • Small case count issues
      • Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups
      • Errors, inconsistencies and uncertainties
    • Appendices
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures