Unintentional Hospital-Treated Injury Victoria 2023/24 Edition 31

This is the thirty-first in a series of regular E-Bulletins that provide an overview of the injury profile for Victoria. This edition provides an overview of unintentional hospital-treated injury in 2023/24 utilising two injury surveillance datasets that separately record hospital admissions and Emergency Department (ED) presentations for injury.

Summary

This E-Bulletin provides information on unintentional hospital-treated injury in 2023/24. There were 144,915 injury hospital admissions in Victoria in 2023/24, 91.4% of which were unintentional (n=132,402). The remaining injury cases were either intentional i.e., self-harm or assault (7.2%, n=10,440) or of other or undetermined intent (1.4%, n=2,073). In this same year, there were 417, 259 injury cases presenting to Victorian hospital EDs, 84.8% of which were unintentional (n=353,812), 3.8% were intentional (self-harm or assault) (n=16,002) and 11.4% were of other or undetermined intent (n=47,445).

Data Sources

Hospital admissions data were extracted from the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED) and ED presentations data from the Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD). The VAED records all hospital admissions in public and private hospitals in the state of Victoria and the VEMD records all presentations to Victorian public hospitals with 24-hour emergency departments.