Creator:

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Injuries

Tags:

• acute care facilities
• hospitalizations
• pediatric injuries
• trauma

Date:

2005-2006

URL:

http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/en/downloads/ntr_bl_highlights_feb2008_en.pdf

Annotation:

The National Trauma Registry 2007 Injury Hospitalizations Highlights Report provides an overview of patients hospitalized due to trauma in all acute care facilities in Canada for the 2005–2006 fiscal year (April 1, 2005, to March 31, 2006).The report also includes a focus on pediatric injury hospitalizations in Canada. More specifically, the analysis provides a description of pediatric injuries resulting in hospitalization in Canada, provincial and territorial rates, factors associated with pediatric injuries, the leading causes of injury hospitalization and the types of injuries sustained.