Research Article
Epidemiology of Injuries in Belgium: Contribution of Hospital Data for Surveillance
Table 6
Information about admissions for all injuries and according to the 3 E codes’ groups.
| | | All injuries | Transport | Falls | Suicide | P value |
| | Type of admission, through | n = 17370 | n = 1841 | n = 9555 | n = 1745 | <0.001 | | ED, without ambulance | 7711 (44.4) | 554 (30.1) | 4059 (42.5) | 609 (34.9) | | | ED, with ambulance | 6705 (38.6) | 587 (31.9) | 4353 (45.6) | 715 (41.0) | | | ED, with ambulance and MICU and/or PIT | 2645 (15.2) | 670 (36.4) | 988 (10.3) | 410 (23.5) | | | Emergency hospitalization | 309 (1.8) | 30 (1.6) | 155 (1.6) | 11 (0.6) | |
| | At the initiative of | n = 17340 | n = 1838 | n = 9539 | n = 1745 | <0.001 | | His/her own initiative | 7223 (41.7) | 788 (42.9) | 3760 (39.4) | 791 (45.4) | | | A specialist | 1093 (6.3) | 113 (6.2) | 589 (6.2) | 40 (2.3) | | | His/her insurer | 26 (0.2) | 4 (0.2) | 12 (0.1) | 5 (0.3) | | | A third party | 5430 (31.3) | 871 (47.4) | 2664 (27.9) | 754 (43.3) | | | His/her general practitioner | 2960 (17.1) | 45 (2.5) | 2087 (21.9) | 122 (7.0) | | | A doctor on call | 608 (3.5) | 17 (0.9) | 427 (4.5) | 31 (1.8) | |
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ED: emergency department, MICU: mobile intensive care unit, and PIT: paramedic intervention unit.
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