Epidemiology of Injuries in Belgium: Contribution of Hospital Data for Surveillance

Table 1

Codes of the external causes of injury in the ICD-9-CM taken into account in this study.

	Causes
(E800--E848)	Transport injuries
(E850--E858)	Accidental poisoning by drugs, medicinal substances, and biologicals
(E860--E869)	Accidental poisoning by other solid and liquid substances, gases, and vapors
(E880--E888)	Accidental falls
(E890--E899)	Accidents caused by fire and flames
(E900--E909)	Accidents due to natural and environmental factors
(E910--E915)	Accidents caused by submersion, suffocation, and foreign bodies
(E916--E928)	Other accidents
(E950--E959)	Suicide and self-inflicted injury
(E960--E969)	Homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons
(E970--E978)	Legal intervention
(E980--E989)	Injury undetermined whether accidentally or purposely inflicted
(E990--E999)	Injury resulting from operations of war
(E979)	Terrorism
(E929)	Late effects of accidental injury
	Place of occurrence
(E849.0)	Home accidents
(E849.1)	Farm accidents
(E849.2)	Mine and quarry accidents
(E849.3)	Accidents occurring in industrial places and premises
(E849.4)	Accidents occurring in place for recreation and sport
(E849.5)	Street and highway accidents
(E849.6)	Accidents occurring in public building
(E849.7)	Accidents occurring in residential institution
(E849.8)	Accidents occurring in another specified place
(E849.9)	Accidents occurring in unspecified place