Dudley Strategy for Tackling Health Inequalities 2010-15

Standardised Rate per 100,000 populationFigure 16b500Trends in emergency admission rates for suicides and undeterminedinjuries by broad age group, females, single year rates 2003 to 2008, Dudley450400350300250200150100500Under 15 15-34 35-54 55-74 75+Source: Secondary Users Service (SUS) Hospital AdmissionsOffice of National Statistics (ONS) mid-year population estimatePatterns of emergency hospital admissions by intent, withinmechanismIn 2004-2008, the majority of falls and fractures were unintentional (99% for malesand females) (Figure 17a &b). If it is assumed that the admissions for osteoporosiswere also unintentional, then all fall and fractures would be unintentional. Themajority of emergency admissions from suffocation were unintentional, though 29%and 13% for males and females respectively were attempted suicide or undeterminedinjury. For females only 8% of admissions due to suffocation were attributed tohomicide/attempted homicide. Poisoning was split across four main intents – drugabuse/dependence (47% for males and 22% for females), unintentional (15% and16%), suicide (34% and 56%) and undetermined intent (3% and 6%).All hospital admissions due to transport incidents were unintentional. This is directlya result of the ICD coding guidelines (ONS, 2006).171