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This category covers unintentional injury hospitalisations and deaths not principally caused by any of the main causes described in the other chapters, or where there may not have been enough information to specify the cause.

This category represents 10.1% of injury hospitalisations and 2.0% of injury deaths.

Other unintentional causes resulted in:

54,100 hospitalisations in 2021–22

210 per 100,000 population

280 deaths in 2020–21

1.1 per 100,000 population

Tables 1 and 2 show the other and unspecified unintentional cause categories recorded for injury hospitalisations in 2021–22 and deaths in 2020–21 respectively.

Table 1: Other unintentional causes of injury hospitalisation, 2021–22

Cause

Hospitalisations

%

Rate (per 100,000)

Exposure to other specified factors (X58)

2,256

4

9

Exposure to unspecified factor (X59)

51,852

96

202

Total

54,108

100

211

Notes

  1. Rates are crude per 100,000 population, calculated using estimated resident population as at 31 December of the relevant year.
  2. Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding.
  3. Codes in brackets refer to the ICD-10-AM (11th edition) external cause codes (ACCD 2019).

Source: AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database and AIHW National Mortality Database.

Table 2: Other unintentional causes of injury death, 2020–21

Cause

Deaths

%

Rate (per 100,000)

Exposure to other specified factors (X58)

4

1

0.0

Exposure to unspecified factor (X59)

275

99

1.1

Total

279

100

1.1

Notes

  1. Rates are crude per 100,000 population, calculated using estimated resident population as at 31 December of the relevant year.
  2. Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding.
  3. Codes in brackets refer to the ICD-10-AM (11th edition) external cause codes (ACCD 2019).

Source: AIHW National Mortality Database.

For more detail, see Data tables B25–26 and E36–38.

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