Research Article

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

Table 5

Gender and age of the patients for all injuries and according to the 3 major E codes’ groups.

All injuriesTransportFallsSuicideP value

Gender n = 17370n = 1841n = 9555n = 1745<0.001
Male8305 (47.8)1228 (66.7)3756 (39.3)645 (37.0)
Female9065 (52.2)613 (33.3)5799 (60.7)1100 (63.0)

Age (years)57 (33–80)32 (20–48)74 (52–84)41 (28–50)<0.001

Data are n (%) and median (p25–p75).