Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Summary
      • Hospitalised falls 2005-06
      • Trends in hospitalised fall-related injury 1999-2006
  • Body sections
    1. Introduction
    2. Fall injury incidence
      • Age and sex
      • Injury type
      • Fractures
      • Geographical distribution
    3. Circumstances of fall injury cases
      • Place of occurrence
        • Aged care facilities
      • Activity
      • Procedures involved in fall cases
    4. Fall injury inward transfers
    5. The burden of injury due to falls
      • Fall-related follow-up care
        • Diagnosis types
      • Length of stay
        • Fall injury case separations
        • Fall injury inward transfer separations
        • Fall-related follow-up care separations
      • 'Other fall-related' separations
    6. Trends in fall hospitalisations
    7. Discussion
      • Falls injuries and circumstances
      • The burden of fall-related injury
      • Trends in falls hospitalisations
  • End matter
    • Data issues
      • Data sources
      • ICD-10-AM
      • Selection criteria
        • Fall cases and inward transfer separations (groups 1 and 2)
        • Follow-up care separations due to falls (group 3)
        • Other separations related to falls (group 4)
      • Calculation of rates
      • Small case count issues
      • Errors, inconsistencies and uncertainties
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures