What is Accidental injury?
What is Accidental injury?
- Accidental injury: An injury that occurs accidentally.
- Accidental injury: an accident that results in physical damage or hurt.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Accidental injury: Introduction
Types of Accidental injury:
Types of Accidental injury:
Broader types of Accidental injury:
How serious is Accidental injury?
Average life years lost for Accidental injury: 32.0 years (SEER)1; 26.5 in North Carolina2; 26.6 average YPLL/person for unintentional injuries in Michigan3.
Deaths for Accidental injury: 101,537 deaths in USA 2001 (CDC); 97,860 deaths (NVSR Sep 2001)
What causes Accidental injury?
Causes of Accidental injury: see causes of Accidental injury
Risk factors for Accidental injury:
see
risk factors for Accidental injury
What are the symptoms of Accidental injury?
Symptoms of Accidental injury:
see symptoms of Accidental injury
Accidental injury: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Accidental injury.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Accidental injury.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Accidental injury:
see treatments for Accidental injury
Research for Accidental injury:
see research for Accidental injury
Society issues for Accidental injury
Cost statistics for Accidental injury:
The following are statistics from various sources about costs and Accidental injury:
- Medical costs for poisoning treatment is estimated at $3 billion in the US 1992 (Miller and Lestina, CDC, 1997)
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Hospitalization statistics for Accidental injury:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Accidental injury:
- 1,007,025 patient days spent in private hospitals for injuries and poisoning in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 1,407,612 patient days spent in public hospitals for injuries and poisoning in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 32.6% of hospitalisations for injuries and poisoning in public hospitals are single day in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 87.0% of hospitalisations for injuries and poisoning in private hospitals are single day in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 352,489 admissions to public hospitals because of injuries and poisoning in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
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Organs Affected by Accidental injury:
Organs and body systems related to Accidental injury include:
Name and Aliases of Accidental injury
Main name of condition: Accidental injury
Class of Condition for Accidental injury: physical
Other names or spellings for Accidental injury:
unintentional injuries, Accidents
Injury
Source - WordNet 2.1
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