Spinal cord injury Australia, 2015–16

Amanda Tovell

Spinal cord injury Australia, 2015–16

Amanda Tovell

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Abstract

In 2015–16, 253 newly incident cases of traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) due to external causes were reported to the Australian Spinal Cord Injury Register. Males accounted for 80% of traumatic SCI cases. Almost half (48%) of the traumatic SCI cases sustained in 2015–16 were due to a fall. A further 39% were due to a land transport crash.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Canberra
Publisher	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Number of pages	60
ISBN (Electronic)	9781760545079
ISBN (Print)	9781760545086
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Name	Injury Research and Statistics
No.	122

Keywords

Spinal cord injury
SCI

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