Table of contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Executive summary
  • Overview of findings
  • Unintentional falls
  • Poisoning by drugs
  • Poisoning by other substances
  • Inhalation of gastric contents, food or other object
  • Sequelae of external causes
  • Certification of death and Underlying cause of death
  • Conclusions
  • 1 Introduction
    • 1.1 Multiple causes of death
    • 1.2 Public health significance of Multiple causes of death information
    • 1.3 Project aims
  • 2 Methods
    • 2.1 Operational definition of injury
    • 2.2 ABS coding practices
    • 2.3 ABS mortality data
    • 2.4 National Coroners Information System
    • 2.5 Linked data
    • 2.6 Literature search
  • 3 Findings
    • 3.1 Operational definition of injury
    • 3.2 ABS mortality coding
    • 3.3 ABS data analyses
      • 3.3.1 Overview
      • 3.3.2 Unintentional falls
      • 3.3.3 Poisoning by drugs
      • 3.3.4 Poisoning by other substances
      • 3.3.5 Inhalations
      • 3.3.6 Sequelae of external causes
    • 3.4 Literature review
  • 4 Discussion
    • 4.1 Aspects of MCoD data relevant to injury surveillance
      • 4.1.1 What is an injury?
      • 4.1.2 Certification of death
      • 4.1.3 Data analyses
      • 4.1.4 Data systems and sources
    • 4.2 Potential for using MCoD information
      • 4.2.1 Falls
      • 4.2.2 Unintentional poisoning by drugs
      • 4.2.3 Unintentional poisoning by other substances
      • 4.2.4 Inhalations
    • 4.2.5 Sequelae of external causes
  • 5 Conclusions
  • Appendix 1: Data issues
    • Data sources
      • ABS deaths data
      • Coronial data
      • Western Australian linked data
    • Age adjustment
    • Confidence intervals
      • ABS deaths data
    • Case definition
      • ABS deaths data
    • Data quality
      • ABS data
      • National Coroners Information System
    • Drugs flag
  • Appendix 2: Falls data extracted from NCIS
  • Appendix 3: Operational definition of injury coding scheme showing mapping from STIPDA coding scheme
  • Appendix 4: Case scenarios coded by the Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • References
  • List of tables
  • List of figures