From: Short-term health service utilization after a paediatric injury: a population-based study
Number of subjects | Additional inpatient* | ||
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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 |