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Injuries: Children

Answer

The number of admissions of children (aged 0 to 14) to hospital as a result of unintentional injury in each of the last five years for which data are available is shown in the following table.

Count of finished admission episodes for children (ages 0-14) with unintentional injury, national health service hospitals, England
Financial year	Number of admissions
2001-02	102,833
2002-03	97,493
2003-04	99,915
2004-05	99,517
2005-06	100,194
Notes:
1. A finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.
2. Data are for International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes V01 to X59, which cover external causes of accidental injury. Data represent a count of all episodes where this diagnosis was mentioned in any of the 14 (seven prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in a HES record.
3. HES are compiled from data sent by over 300 NHS trusts and primary care trusts in England. The Information Centre for health and social care liaises closely with these organisations to encourage submission of complete and valid data and seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data via HES processes. While this brings about improvement over time, some shortcomings remain.
4. When analysing time series of HES data, the impact of improvements over time in data quality and coverage, and of changes in NHS practice need to be borne in mind. For example, a number of procedures may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and may no longer be accounted in the HES data. This may account for any reductions in activity over time.
5. Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (ie the data are ungrossed).
Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Information Centre for health and social care.

The number of children (aged 0 to 14) who died as a result of unintentional injury in each of the last five years for which data are available is shown in the following table.

Deaths from unintentional injury, ages 0 to 14, England
	Number of deaths
2002	284
2003	274
2004	240
2005	231
2006	233
Notes:
1. Data are for deaths registered in each calendar year.
2. Cause of death is based on the final underlying cause, defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes V01 to X59.
3. Data are for usual residents of England.
Source:
Office for National Statistics death registrations

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

463 c1333-4W; 152762

Session

2006-07

Subjects

Children Injuries

Link

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