Table 1

Count and percentage of episodes, occupied bed days and average length of stay by ICD Classification, 1997/8 – 2003/4

ICD 10 Code
Episodes
%
Bed days
%
Average length of stay

V90 Accident to watercraft causing drowning and submersion
56
0.8
102
0.3
1.9
V91 Accident to watercraft causing other injury
247
3.6
1223
3.8
5.3
V92 Water-transport-related drowning/submersion without accident to watercraft
245
3.6
895
2.8
3.8
V93 Accident on board water craft without accident to watercraft not causing drowning or submersion
1100
16.2
4872
15.1
4.6
V94 Other and unspecified water transport accidents
539
7.9
2007
6.2
3.8
W15 Fall from cliff
847
12.5
5644
17.5
7.0
W16 Diving/jumping into water cause injury other than drowning or submersion
1256
18.5
8262
25.6
6.7
W65 Drowning and submersion while in bath-tub
262
3.9
795
2.5
3.2
W66 Drowning and submersion following fall into bath-tub
96
1.4
439
1.4
4.9
W67 Drowning and submersion while in swimming-pool
303
4.5
489
1.5
1.7
W68 Drowning and submersion following fall into swimming-pool
137
2.0
499
1.5
3.8
W69 Drowning and submersion while in natural water
266
3.9
1125
3.5
4.7
W70 Drowning and submersion following fall into natural water
288
4.2
1102
3.4
4.2
W73 Other specified drowning and submersion
154
2.3
653
2.0
4.6
W74 Unspecified drowning and submersion
777
11.4
2731
8.5
3.9
X38 Victim of flood
127
1.9
884
2.7
7.6
X92 Assault by drowning and submersion
66
1.0
239
0.7
5.1
Y21 Drowning and submersion undetermined intent
61
0.9
559
1.7
11.9

Total
6793
100.0
32,520
100.0
5.0

Henderson and Wilson BMC Public Health 2006 6:210   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-6-210