Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
      • This report
    • 2 Fall injury incidence
      • Age and sex
      • Injury type
      • Severity
      • Geographical distribution
    • 3 Circumstances of fall injury cases
      • Place of occurrence
      • Activity when fall occurred
    • 4 The burden of injury due to falls
      • Fall injury inward transfer separations
      • Fall-related follow-up care separations
      • ‘Other fall-related’ separations
      • ‘Tendency to fall’ separations
    • 5 Procedures
      • Procedures listed in fall injury case separations
      • Procedures listed in fall injury inward transfer separations
      • Procedures listed in fall-related follow-up care separations
      • Procedures listed in ‘other fall-related’ separations
      • Procedures listed in ‘tendency to fall’ separations
    • 6 Length of stay
      • Fall injury case separations
      • Fall injury transfer separations
      • Fall-related follow-up care separations
      • ‘Other fall-related’ and ‘tendency to fall’ separations
      • All fall-related separations
      • Total mean length of stay
    • 7 Trends over time
      • Trends: all cases
      • Trends: hip fractures and other fractures
      • Trends: body region
      • Trends: external cause
      • Trends: place of occurrence
      • Trends: state or territory of usual residence
      • Trends: remoteness of usual residence
      • Trends: ‘other fall-related’ separations
      • Trends: length of stay
    • 8 Discussion
      • Fall injuries and circumstances
      • The burden of fall-related injury
      • Trends for fall-related hospital care
      • Potential for improved surveillance
  • End matter
    • Appendix: Data issues
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Related publications