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What is Accidental injury?

Contents
  1. Accidental injury: Introduction
  2. Types of Accidental injury
  3. Prognosis
  4. Other names for Accidental injury
  5. What causes Accidental injury?
  6. What are the symptoms of Accidental injury?
  7. Organs Affected by Accidental injury
  8. Can anyone else get Accidental injury?
  9. How is it treated?
  10. Society issues for Accidental injury
  11. Accidental injury: Introduction

What is Accidental injury?

  • Accidental injury: An injury that occurs accidentally.
  • Accidental injury: an accident that results in physical damage or hurt.
    Source - WordNet 2.1

Accidental injury: Introduction

Types of Accidental injury:

Types of Accidental injury:

Broader types of Accidental injury:

How serious is Accidental injury?

Average life years lost for Accidental injury: 32.0 years (SEER)1; 26.5 in North Carolina2; 26.6 average YPLL/person for unintentional injuries in Michigan3.
Deaths for Accidental injury: 101,537 deaths in USA 2001 (CDC); 97,860 deaths (NVSR Sep 2001)

What causes Accidental injury?

Causes of Accidental injury: see causes of Accidental injury
Risk factors for Accidental injury: see risk factors for Accidental injury

What are the symptoms of Accidental injury?

Symptoms of Accidental injury: see symptoms of Accidental injury

Accidental injury: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Accidental injury.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Accidental injury.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Accidental injury: see treatments for Accidental injury
Research for Accidental injury: see research for Accidental injury

Society issues for Accidental injury


Cost statistics for Accidental injury: The following are statistics from various sources about costs and Accidental injury:

  • Medical costs for poisoning treatment is estimated at $3 billion in the US 1992 (Miller and Lestina, CDC, 1997)
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Hospitalization statistics for Accidental injury: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Accidental 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)
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Organs Affected by Accidental injury:

Organs and body systems related to Accidental injury include:

Name and Aliases of Accidental injury

Main name of condition: Accidental injury

Class of Condition for Accidental injury: physical

Other names or spellings for Accidental injury:

unintentional injuries, Accidents

Injury
Source - WordNet 2.1

Accidental injury: Related Conditions

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Accidental injury:



Footnotes:
1. SEER Cancer Statistics Review 1975-2000, National Cancer Institute (NCI)
2. Years of Potential Life Lost in North Carolina, NCMJ March/April 2002, Volume 63, Number 2
3. Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, MDCH, Michigan, USA
 

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