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  • The incidence of public sector hospitalisations due to dog bites in Australia 2001–2013

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    Rajshekar, Mithun
    Blizzard, Leigh
    Julian, Roberta
    Williams, Anne-Marie
    Tennant, Marc
    Forrest, Alex
    Walsh, Laurence J
    Wilson, Gary
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    Forrest, Alex S.
    Walsh, Laurence
    Year published
    2017
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    Objective: To estimate the incidence of dog bite-related injuries requiring public sector hospitalisation in Australia during the period 2001–13. Methods: Summary data on public sector hospitalisations due to dog bite-related injuries with an ICD 10-AM W54.0 coding were sourced from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for the study period 2001–2013. Results: In Australia, on average, 2,061 persons were hospitalised each year for treatment for dog bite injuries at an annual rate of 12.39 (95%CI 12.25–12.53) per 100,000 during 2001–13. The highest annual rates of 25.95 (95%CI 25.16–26.72) and 18.42 (95%CI 17.75–19.07) ...
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    Objective: To estimate the incidence of dog bite-related injuries requiring public sector hospitalisation in Australia during the period 2001–13. Methods: Summary data on public sector hospitalisations due to dog bite-related injuries with an ICD 10-AM W54.0 coding were sourced from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for the study period 2001–2013. Results: In Australia, on average, 2,061 persons were hospitalised each year for treatment for dog bite injuries at an annual rate of 12.39 (95%CI 12.25–12.53) per 100,000 during 2001–13. The highest annual rates of 25.95 (95%CI 25.16–26.72) and 18.42 (95%CI 17.75–19.07) per 100,000 were for age groups 0–4 and 5–9 years respectively. Rates of recorded events increased over the study period and reached 16.15 (95%CI 15.78–16.52) per 100,000 during 2011–13. Conclusion: Dog bites are a largely unrecognised and growing public health problem in Australia. Implications for public health: There is an increasing public sector burden of hospitalisations for injuries from dog bites in Australia.
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    Journal Title
    Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume
    41
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12630
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2017. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modications or adaptations are made.
    Subject
    Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
    Public Health and Health Services
    Applied Economics
    Policy and Administration
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/346474
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