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 9.9% of injury hospitalisations and 2.0% of injury deaths.

Other unintentional causes resulted in:

56,700 hospitalisations in 2020–21

220 per 100,000 population

270 deaths in 2019–20

1.1 per 100,000 population

Tables 1a and 1b show the other and unspecified unintentional cause categories recorded for injury hospitalisations in 2020–21 and deaths in 2019–20 respectively.

Table 1a: Other unintentional causes of injury hospitalisation, 2020–21

Cause

Hospitalisations

%

Rate (per 100,000)

Exposure to other specified factors (X58)

2,554

5

10

Exposure to unspecified factor (X59)

54,120

95

211

Total

56,674

100

221

Notes

  1. Rates are crude per 100,000 population.
  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 1b: Other unintentional causes of injury death, 2019–20

Cause

Deaths

%

Rate (per 100,000)

Exposure to other specified factors (X58)

6

2

0.0

Exposure to unspecified factor (X59)

263

98

1.0

Total

269

100

1.1

Notes

  1. Rates are crude per 100,000 population.
  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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