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dc.contributor.authorRajshekar, Mithun
dc.contributor.authorBlizzard, Leigh
dc.contributor.authorJulian, Roberta
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Anne-Marie
dc.contributor.authorTennant, Marc
dc.contributor.authorForrest, Alex
dc.contributor.authorWalsh, Laurence J
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Gary
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-14T04:48:59Z
dc.date.available2017-09-14T04:48:59Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn1326-0200
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1753-6405.12630
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/346474
dc.description.abstractObjective: 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom377
dc.relation.ispartofpageto380
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
dc.relation.ispartofvolume41
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHealth services and systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic health
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4203
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4206
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4407
dc.titleThe incidence of public sector hospitalisations due to dog bites in Australia 2001–2013
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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gro.rights.copyright© 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.
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gro.griffith.authorForrest, Alex S.
gro.griffith.authorWalsh, Laurence


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