Volume 193 - Issue 10
Trends in the incidence of hospitalisation for injuries resulting from non-traffic crashes in New South Wales, July 1998 to June 2007
Authors: Shanley S S Chong, Wei Du and Julie Hatfield
Med J Aust 2010; 193 (10): 620. || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb04080.x
Published online: 15 November 2010
Published online: 15 November 2010
In reply: We acknowledge our error in reporting Henley and Harrison’s findings,1 and commend Bradley and colleagues for providing information about traffic and non-traffic transport injuries separately. We are also pleased that the National Injury Surveillance Unit will soon publish a report including analysis of trends in non-traffic transport injuries, extending our analyses beyond New South Wales. This is consistent with our conclusion that more needs to be done to understand non-traffic crashes.2 We defend our claim that the statistics in many reports and articles often do not clearly distinguish between traffic and non-traffic crashes and injuries.
References
- Henley G, Harrison JE. Serious injury due to land transport accidents, Australia 2006–07. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2009. (AIHW Cat. No. INJCAT 129; Injury re-search and statistics series no. 53.) http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/inj/injcat-129-11033/injcat-129-11033.pdf (accessed Oct 2010).
- Chong S, Du W, Hatfield J. Trends in the inci-dence of hospitalisation for injuries resulting from non-traffic crashes in New South Wales, July 1998 to June 2007. Med J Aust 2010; 193: 223-226. 0_i1095395
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