Major external causes of sport and active recreation injuries resulting in hospital admission or general practitioner presentation in Latrobe Valley residents aged over 4 years (7 November 1994 to 6 November 1995)*
| Hospital admissions (VAED) | GP presentations (ELVIS) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| External causes of injury or ICD9 E-code group | E-codes | No | % (95% CI) | No | % (95% CI) |
| *This category may include cases from other than sport activities; these cannot be separated out. | |||||
| †There were 1146 GP presentations when data were selected by E-codes. When data were selected by Injury Surveillance Intelligence System (ISIS) code there were 1003 cases. Because more information can be gained from ISIS coding, the smaller dataset was subjected to detailed analysis. | |||||
| ‡Victorian Injury Surveillance System (VISS) hospital emergency department data are not included in this table because the system does not use the ICD9 E-code classification system. | |||||
| VAED, Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset; GP, general practitioner; ELVIS, Extended Latrobe Valley Injury Surveillance; CI, confidence interval. | |||||
| Animal riding (horseriding) | (810.5, 811.5, . . ., 825.5) | 11 | 9.8 (4.3 to 15.3) | 20 | 1.7 (1.0 to 2.5) |
| (826.2, 827.2, . . ., 829.2) | |||||
| Pedal cycling | (800.3, 801.3, . . ., 807.3) | 22 | 19.6 (12.3 to 27.0) | 133 | 11.6 (9.8 to 13.5) |
| (810.6, 811.6, . . ., 825.6) | |||||
| (826.1, 827.1, . . ., 829.1) | |||||
| Water skiing | (830.4, 831.4, . . ., 838.4) (910.0) | 0 | – | 2 | 0.2 (0.0 to 0.4) |
| Swimming | (830.5, 831.5, . . ., 838.5) | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Diving | (883.0, 910.1, 910.2) | 1 | 0.9 (0.0 to 2.6) | 9 | 0.8 (0,3 to 1.3) |
| Fall on same level (sport) | 886.0 | 13 | 11.6 (5.7 to 17.5) | 44 | 3.8 (2.7 to 5.0) |
| Struck/crush (sport) | 917.0 | 44 | 39.3 (30.2 to 48.3) | 380 | 33.2 (30.4 to 35.9) |
| Overexertion/strenuous movements† | 927.0 | 21 | 18.8 (11.5 to 26.0) | 558 | 48.7 (45.8 to 51.6) |
| Total | 112 | 1146‡ | |||