Injuries: data introduction
Injury related statistics are available from a wide range of information sources including population surveys, health care and mortality datasets, and routine administrative sources. Although the term 'injury' is preferred to that of 'accidents', a number of data sources still use accidents and we have preserved their use of this terminology.
Most of the injury data on mortality and hospital admissions are available through hyperlinks to Injury Observatory for Britain and Ireland and the ISD Unintentional Injuries Team pages on the ISD Scotland website. These injury data are based on international diagnostic classifications and a list of diagnosis codes (ICD9 and ICD10) is available from theInternational Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics, for selected causes of mortality. ISD Unintentional injuries team have also produced a set of ICD9 and ICD10 codes used in their analysis of unintentional injury data.
In addition, further injury related statistics on workplace injuries, road traffic accidents, fires, assaults are also collected and reported on by various official agencies e.g. the Health and Safety Executive, Emergency Services. A summary of key data trends from these sources is also provided, with hyperlinks to supporting websites.
Table 1 summarises the dimensions/ geographies injury data are presented at,either within the data pages which follow or through hyperlinks to other websites.
Table 1 Data for Scotland available through the injury data pages
| Data presented? (Y=yes; N=no) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Data dimensions/geographies | Mortality | Secondary Care | Other |
| By gender | Y | Y | Y |
| By age group | N | N | Y |
| By deprivation group | Y | Y | N |
| By NHS board area | N | N | N |
| By local authority area | N | N | Y |
| By community health partnership area | N | N | N |
| Time trend | Y | Y | Y |
| National target | N | N | N |
| Comparison with UK/GB | Y | N | Y |
| International comparison | Y | N | N |
Please note: If you require the most up-to-date data available, please check the data sources directly as new data may have been published since these data pages were last updated. Although we endeavour to ensure that the data pages are kept up-to-date, there may be a time lag between new data being published and the relevant ScotPHO web pages being updated.