Table of contents
- Executive Summary
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Hospitalised near drownings
- Data source
- Identifying hospitalisations due to near drownings
- Profile
- Age and sex
- Circumstances of near drowning
- Diagnoses
- Procedures
- Outcome
- Persisting morbidity among hospitalised near drownings
- Defining persisting morbidity
- Identifying 'probable' persisting morbidity cases
- Profile
- Age and sex
- Circumstances of near drowning
- Diagnoses
- Procedures
- Length of stay
- Separation mode
- Data issues
- Data sources
- Selection criteria
- Hospitalised cases vs other cases
- Errors, inconsistencies and uncertainty in the data
- Calculation of rates
- Transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-AM
- Other sources of information
- Methods
- Results
- Trauma registries
- The Australian Spinal Cord Injury Register
- Summary
- Hospitalised near drownings
- Persisting morbidity among near drowning cases
- Other data sources
- References
- Appendices