For the year 1998, seven per cent of the death registrations in the 1998 mortality dataset included deaths that occurred in previous years. State-specific data are presented on the basis of the state or territory in which death was registered. This is normally the one in which death occurred. The main matter of interest for this report is the incidence of horse-related injury resulting in death or admission to a hospital. The hospital data count episodes of inpatient care.
Some injuries result in more than one episode of care at one or more hospitals.
The bed-days occupied by these cases have been included in estimates of the burden of injury. Direct standardisation was employed, taking the Australian population in 1991 as the standard. Time series Mortality time trends have been presented for the period 1979 to 1998.