What is Injury?

What is Injury?

• Injury: Any damage inflicted in the body.
• Injury: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
  Source - WordNet 2.1

Injury: Introduction

Types of Injury:

Types of Injury:

• Accidental injury
• Homicide
• Criminal injury
• more types...»

Broader types of Injury:

• Non-genetic diseases
• Non-Contagious Diseases
• more types...»

How many people get Injury?

Incidence (annual) of Injury: 59 million cases (IOM)
Incidence Rate of Injury: approx 1 in 4 or 21.69% or 59 million people in USA [about data]

Who gets Injury?

Patient Profile for Injury: Typically younger people, often children or 15-25.

How serious is Injury?

Deaths for Injury: 147,891 deaths due to injury (IOM)

What causes Injury?

Causes of Injury: see causes of Injury
Cause of Injury: Usually accidents, homicide or suicide.
Risk factors for Injury: see risk factors for Injury

Injury: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Injury.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Injury.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Injury: see treatments for Injury
Research for Injury: see research for Injury

Society issues for Injury

Costs of Injury: estimated $260 billion (IOM)
Hospitalizations for Injury: 2.6 million hospitalizations and 37 million emergency department visits (IOM)

Hospitalization statistics for Injury: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and 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)
• 437,093 admissions to private hospitals because of injuries and poisoning in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
• 2,370 people per 100,000 population are hospitalised because of injury and poisoning in Australia 2002 (Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
• more statistics...»

Organs Affected by Injury:

Organs and body systems related to Injury include:

• Body

Name and Aliases of Injury

Main name of condition: Injury

Trauma

Hurt, Harm, Trauma, Injury, Hurt, Harm
Source - WordNet 2.1

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