Spinal cord injury, Australia, 2016–17
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) Spinal cord injury, Australia, 2016–17, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 20 April 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Spinal cord injury, Australia, 2016–17. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Spinal cord injury, Australia, 2016–17. AIHW, 2020.
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A total of 227 newly incident cases of traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) due to external causes were reported to the Australian Spinal Cord Injury Register for 2016–17. The majority (80%) of these were males. Land transport crashes (39%) and falls (39%) were most often reported as the cause of traumatic SCI.
- ISSN: 2205-510X
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-663-2
- Cat. no: INJCAT 209
- Pages: 60
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There were 227 new cases of traumatic SCI among people aged 15 and over in 2016–17
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Males outnumber females by over 4:1 for traumatic SCI
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The rate of persisting traumatic SCI among people aged 15 and over in 2016–17 was 11 cases per million
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Land transport crashes were the leading cause of traumatic SCI, closely followed by falls