Research Article

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

Table 7

Primary diagnosis (ICD-9-CM) for all injuries and according to the 3 major E codes’ groups.

All injuriesTransportFallsSuicideP value

Primary diagnosis n = 17370n = 1841n = 9555n = 1745
153 (0.9)1 (<0.1)91 (1.0)2 (0.1)
123 (0.7)75 (0.8)2 (0.1)
211 (1.2)1 (<0.1)144 (1.5)1 (<0.1)
52 (0.3)33 (0.4)
576 (3.3)13 (0.7)315 (3.3)126 (7.2)
440 (2.5)15 (0.8)312 (3.3)7 (0.4)
870 (5.0)15 (0.8)574 (6.0)1 (<0.1)
476 (2.7)5 (0.3)230 (2.4)6 (0.3)
280 (1.6)1 (<0.1)129 (1.4)4 (0.2)
209 (1.2)1 (<0.1)114 (1.2)3 (0.2)
23 (0.1)5 (0.3)8 (<0.1)1 (<0.1)
87 (0.5)4 (0.2)22 (0.2)1 (<0.1)
379 (2.2)21 (1.1)277 (2.9)2 (0.1)
3 (<0.1)3 (<0.1)
361 (2.1)18 (1.0)216 (2.3)10 (0.6)
12955 (74.6)1714 (93.1)6903 (72.2)1570 (90.0)<0.001*
172 (1.0)27 (1.5)109 (1.1)9 (0.5)

Data are n (%). *P value from a dichotomous comparison of versus all the other primary diagnoses.