Spinal cord injury, Australia 2009–10

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Release Date: 22 Jan 2018

Topic: Injury

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2018) Spinal cord injury, Australia 2009–10, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 01 June 2023.

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For the 2009–10 period, 314 new cases of spinal cord injury (SCI) were reported to the Australian Spinal Cord Injury Register (ASCIR), 72% of which were due to traumatic causes. Males accounted for 81% of traumatic SCI cases. Land transport crashes (47%) and Falls (34%) accounted for the majority of traumatic SCI cases during 2009–10.

ISSN: 2205-510X (PDF) 1444-3791 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-76054-280-1
Cat. no: INJCAT 155
Pages: 49

Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
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Summary
1 Introduction
2 Traumatic SCI case registrations in 2009–10
3 Persisting traumatic SCI
- Persisting traumatic SCI in 2009–10 and earlier years
- Demographic and social characteristics of persisting traumatic SCI in 2009–10
- Clinical characteristics of persisting traumatic SCI in 2009–10
4 External causes of SCI in 2009–10
- Mechanism of injury
- Activity at time of injury
Appendix A: Data issues
Appendix B: Non-traumatic SCI
Appendix C: Additional tables
Glossary
References
List of tables
List of figures
List of boxes
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