Population Health and Strategic Direction
Profile of falls in older persons in Western Sydney and NSW: prevalence, hospitalisation and mortality
Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Commonly used terms and abbreviations
- Summary of main findings
- Guide for readers
- Data sources
- Falls Statistics from the Community
- Emergency Department Injury Statistics
- NSW Inpatients Statistics Collection
- ABS mortality
- Limitations of data
- Introduction
- Estimating the burden of falls in older persons in NSW and Western Sydney
- Review of fall-related hospitalisation data in older persons in Western
Sydney and NSW
- Diagnosis Related Groups of fall-related hospitalisations
- Sources of referral
- Analysis of fall-related hospitalisation data (inter-hospital transfers and internal type changes excluded)
- Risk factors for falls in the elderly
- Circumstances associated with falls
- Procedural interventions
- Revised Diagnosis Related Groups of fall-related hospitalisations
- Principal diagnosis
- Possible intrinsic causes of fall-related hospitalisations
- Fall-related fractured neck of femur
- Operative procedures following fractured neck of femur
- Separation categories following fall-related hospitalisation in older
persons
- Costs of fall-related hospitalisation in older persons
- Time trends in fall-related hospitalisations
- Projection of future fall-related hospitalisation
- Western Sydney Emergency Department data
- Activity preceding a fall – all ages
- Age distribution
- Activity preceding a fall – persons aged 65 years and over
- Mode of separation from ED
- Place of occurrence
- Fall-related mortality in older persons
- Burden of fall-related deaths
- Trends in mortality due to accidental falls
- Appendices
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
- Bibliography
