Injury resulting from dog bites

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Release Date: 01 Jul 1998

Topic: Injury

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (1998) Injury resulting from dog bites, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 30 October 2024.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (1998). Injury resulting from dog bites. Canberra: AIHW.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Injury resulting from dog bites. AIHW, 1998.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Injury resulting from dog bites. Canberra: AIHW; 1998.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 1998, Injury resulting from dog bites, AIHW, Canberra.

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This brief report summarises information on dog bites derived from three separate data sources: Emergency department presentations, hospitalisations and deaths. It was written in response to frequent requests for information on this issue.

Cat. no: AIHW 6646
Pages: 0

Australian hospitalisations data, 1995/96
Australian deaths data, 1979-1996
Link to Medical Journal of Australia
Dog bites data tables
- Table of frequencies by sex
- Table of frequencies by age group
- Table of frequencies by primary injury sustained
- Table of frequencies by primary body part injured
- Table of frequencies by level of medical treatment received
- Table of frequencies by geographical location of the incident
- Summary table of a random selection of relevant cases
- Frequency of hospitalisations by sex
- Frequency of hospitalisations by age group
- Frequency of hospitalisations by geographical location of the incident
- Frequency of hospitalisations by type of injury
- Cross tabulation of mean length of hospital stay by selected categories of injury

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