Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
- Summary
- Body section
- 1 Introduction
- This report
- 2 Fall injury incidence
- Age and sex
- Injury type
- Severity
- Geographical distribution
- 3 Circumstances of fall injury cases
- Place of occurrence
- Activity when fall occurred
- 4 The burden of injury due to falls
- Fall injury inward transfers
- Fall-related follow-up care
- ‘Other fall-related’ hospitalisations
- 5 Length of stay
- Fall injury case separations
- Fall injury inward transfer separations
- Fall-related follow-up care separations
- All fall-related hospitalisations
- Total mean length of stay
- 6 Estimated costs
- Methods
- The cost of hospital care for falls by older people
- Length of stay comparisons
- Cost components
- 7 ‘Tendency to fall’ hospitalisations
- 8 Trends in fall hospitalisations
- Diagnosis types
- External causes
- Place of occurrence
- State or territory of usual residence
- Transfers and follow-up care
- 9 Discussion
- Fall injuries and circumstances
- The burden of fall-related injury
- Trends in falls hospitalisations
- 1 Introduction
- End matter
- Appendix A: Data issues
- Appendix B: Additional tables
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures