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Table 2 Number of additional inpatient admissions and days of stay in the 12 months post-injury, by International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9 subchapters and injury severity score (ISS) of the index injury

From: Short-term health service utilization after a paediatric injury: a population-based study

 

Number of subjects

Additional inpatient*

Injury (ICD-9CM subchapters)

 

Accesses

Days

Intracranial injury (850–854)

483

510

1.586

Fracture of upper limb (810–819)

912

1028

1.776

Fracture of lower limb (820–829)

347

434

1.247

Contusion with skin intact (920–924)

82

106

324

Fracture of skull (800–804)

136

151

674

Toxic effects of substances (980–989)

79

100

166

Complications and unspecified injuries (958–959)

127

145

287

Poisonings (960–979)

69

71

179

Burns (940–949)

80

85

762

Open wound of head, neck, and trunk (870–879)

140

139

229

Effects of foreign body entering orifice (930–939)

122

126

211

Internal injury of thorax, abdomen, and pelvis (860–869)

61

61

377

Open wound of upper limb (880–887)

71

94

263

Sprains and strains (840–848)

38

40

89

Fracture of neck and trunk (805–809)

27

32

85

Dislocation (830–839)

16

16

43

Open wound of lower limb (890–897)

32

31

161

Other unspecified (990–994)

13

17

40

Superficial injury (910–919)

18

17

32

Injury to nerves and spinal cord (950–957)

14

13

−51

Injury to blood vessels (900–904)

2

3

49

Crushing injury (925–929)

14

14

21

ISS score

   

Minor (1–8)

2172

2401

5319

Moderate (9–15)

97

146

570

Severe (≥16)

57

73

680

N.A.

557

613

1981

Total

2883

3233

8550

  1. *: difference in total hospital admissions (accesses) and cumulative length of stay (days) in the 12 months after and before the index injury occurrence.