These are summarised in Table E.3. That is, for every 38.24 Emergency Department attendances, there will be one for road injury. Alternatively, it could be said that there were some 2.62 road injury attendances per 100 Emergency Department attendances. More detailed analysis of the data is presented in the body of this report. See appendix 4 for details.
All numbers are subject to rounding.
Confidence intervals cannot be reported for NT and ACT as the figures are actual counts from only one hospital in each Territory. An important impetus for this study related to previous studies which had shown the significant under-reporting to the Police of serious injuries. Data provided to the Federal Office of Road Safety by the various State Police departments is summarised in Table E.4, together with the estimates of road injury Emergency Department attendances and admissions as derived from this project. A number of issues are relevant when interpreting this data. Not all Police departments provided such data.