Work-related Injury Reports
Work-Related Injury Hospitalisations, Australia 2002-03 and 2003-04, provides an in-depth analysis of all work-related injuries that were serious enough to result in hospitalisation during the two year period. The report uses the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s (AIHW) National Hospital Morbidity Database and provides extensive details of hospitalised work-related injuries by industry sector, mechanism, nature, body region, principal diagnosis, length of stay and procedures. It also provides an analysis of those injury hospitalisations funded by workers’ compensation.
The report was written by Associate Professor James Harrison and Louise Flood, of the Research Centre for Injury Studies at Flinders University, and Dr Tim Driscoll of ELMATOM Pty Ltd.
Work-Related Injury Hospitalisations, Australia 2002-03 and 2003-04 (PDF 1.79MB)
Work-Related Injury Emergency Department Presentations, 2002-03 and 2003-04, provides an analysis of recent presentations to emergency departments (A&E) as a result of work-related injury, and considers the role of A&E data as an on-going source of information on work-related injury in Australia. Information regarding work-related injury presentations to A&E in Australia is currently only available for a limited proportion of the Australian workforce. Broad coverage is available in Victoria via the Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset and extensive coverage of parts of Queensland is provided by the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit.
The report was written by Associate Professor James Harrison, of the Research Centre for Injury Studies at Flinders University, and Dr Tim Driscoll of ELMATOM Pty Ltd.
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