Injury Hospitalizations




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Note: * represents a number less than 5
Note: ** percentages are based on a total of all injuries, including both unintentional and intentional injuries, unless otherwise selected under the cause of injury
Note: * Hospital length of stay is based on the total episode of care.
Data Source: Canadian Institute of Health Information [creator] (2025): Discharge Abstract Database (Hospital Separations). British Columbia Ministry of Health [publisher]. Data Extract. MOH (2025). http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/conducting-health-research-evaluation/data-access-health-data-central
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We acknowledge the assistance of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) and BC Ministry of Health staff involved in data access, procurement, and management. We gratefully acknowledge the residents of British Columbia whose data are integrated in the Injury hospitalization surveillance project (ND0912) within PHSA's Platform for Analytics & Data.

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Broken down By:

Age Group:

Body Part:

Cause:

Intent:

Level of Care:

Month:

Place of Occurrence:

Region:

Sex:

Type:

Year:

Query Date:

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Data Source: Canadian Institute of Health Information [creator] (2025): Discharge Abstract Database (Hospital Separations). British Columbia Ministry of Health [publisher]. Data Extract. MOH (2025). http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/conducting-health-research-evaluation/data-access-health-data-central

Disclaimer: Interpretation of the data and summary information in this table/chart is the responsibility of the user. The numbers may vary from other similar datasets due to discrepancies in coding categories. All inferences, opinions, and conclusions drawn from this tool are those of the user(s), and do not reflect the opinions or policies of the Data Steward(s).

We acknowledge the assistance of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) and BC Ministry of Health staff involved in data access, procurement, and management. We gratefully acknowledge the residents of British Columbia whose data are integrated in the Injury hospitalization surveillance project (ND0912) within PHSA's Platform for Analytics & Data.

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TERM	DESCRIPTION
Age Specific Rates	The rate of death per 100,000 population in the specified age group for a given year. Age Specific Rates provide more detailed examination of hospitalization and mortality issues by age than is provided by summary standardized measures such as age standardized rates. When rates are presented by an age group breakdown, the rates are often referred to as Age Specific Rates. Population estimates have been used to calculate the age specific rates.
Age Standardized Rates	A summary of age adjusted death rates that have been standardized to a standard population for the purpose of rate comparisons between genders, disparate geographic regions or populations, or over time periods. This rate is the theoretical number of deaths per 100,000 population that would have occurred in the standard population if the age groups in the standard population were dying at the same rate as the population in question. Or, in other words, the age standardized rate is the theoretical number of deaths per 100,000 population that would have occurred in the population in question if it had the same age group distribution (proportions) as the standard population. These rates are selected to remove any discrepancies due to age structure differences (all age groups 0-90+) in population. A specific age group cannot be selected when requesting for age standardized rates. Note: Only age standardized rates that have been calculated to the same standard populations are comparable. In addition, the age standardized rate is a theoretical value used for rate comparison that does not represent the actual rate of death observed in a population.
Cause of Injury	The mechanism of injury. This is further divided into subcauses. For a breakdown of codes that classify each category, please refer to Injury Classification Framework.
Cutting/Piercing	Injury caused by cutting object or piercing instrument such as sharp glass, knife, sword or dagger
Drowning/Submersion	Accidental drowning or submersion in water. Includes watercraft transport incidents causing drowning.
Environmental/Natural Factor	Exposure to environmental and natural factors. Includes insect and animal bites, contact with plants and thorns, exposure to heat and cold, effects from travel and motion and lack of food.
Explosion/Rupture	Includes explosion/rupture of broiler, gas cylinder, pressurized tire, pipe, hose.
Exposure to Electric Current	Exposure to electric transmission lines or current.
Falls	Including falls on same level, and from various heights and objects, fall or dropped while being carried, fall involving wheelchair, ice skates, skis, skateboard, etc., fall due to pushing or collision with other person, diving or jumping into water (if injury other than drowning). Excludes falls from animals, burning buildings, fire, water (with drowning), machinery, transport vehicles, and falls onto sharp objects.
Fire, Flames & Hot Substances	Injuries caused by fire and flames; hot appliances, objects or liquids; steam; acid burns. Unintentional burning by fire, smoke and fumes asphyxia; burns due to contact with hot objects, substances or caustics. Excludes fire in machinery, non-stationary transport and other vehicles, watercraft fires, radiation burns and electric current.
Firearms	Includes handgun discharge, rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge, discharge from BB gun, and air gun.
ICD-10	International Classification of Diseases (ICD), tenth revision. The morbidity classification uses the ICD-10-CA, an enhanced version of the ICD-10.
Injury	Any unintentional or intentional damage to the body resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical or chemical energy or from the absence of such essentials as heat or oxygen.
Intent (of injury)	The role of human purpose in an injury incident.
Intentional Injury	Injuries that are purposely inflicted, either by a person to him/herself or to another person. Examples suicide or attempted suicide, homicide, rape, assault, domestic abuse, elder abuse, and child abuse.
Legal/War	Includes injuries inflicted by police or other law-enforcing agents in the course of arresting or attempting to arrest lawbreakers, suppressing disturbances, maintaining order and other legal action.
Machinery	Contact with machinery such as powered lawnmover, powered hand tools, household machinery and agricultural machinery.
Motor Vehicle Occupant	Motor vehicle (non motorcycle, non specialized) occupant injured in transport accident
Motorcycle	A two-wheeled motor vehicle with one or two ridding saddles and sometimes with a third wheel for the support of a sidecar. The sidecar is considered part of the motorcycle and includes moped, motor scooter, motorized bicycle, speed-limited motor-driven cycle. It excludes motor-driven tricycles.
Motorcyclist	Any person riding on a motorcycle or in a sidecar or trailer attached to a motorcycle.
Non-traffic	A non-traffic incident is any vehicle incident that occurs entirely in any place other than a highway or street.
Off-road Vehicle	A special all-terrain vehicle is a motor vehicle of special design to enable it to negotiate rough or soft terrain or snow, includes snowmobile.
Overexertion	Overexertion and strenuous movements from excessive physical exercise, recreation, lifting, pulling, and pushing.
Pedal Cycle	Any land transport vehicle operated solely by pedals and includes bicycles and tricycles.
Pedal Cyclist	Any person riding on a pedal cycle or in a sidecar or trailer attached to such a vehicle.
Pedestrian	Any person involved in an accident who was not at the time of the accident riding in or on a motor vehicle, railway train, streetcar or animal-drawn or other vehicle, or on a pedal cycle or animal. Includes: person changing wheel of vehicle, making adjustment to motor of vehicle, on foot, user of a pedestrian conveyance such as: baby carriage, ice-skates, perambulator, push-cart, push-chair, roller-skates, scooter, skateboard, skis, sled, wheelchair (powered).
Rate (Crude rate) per 100,000 Population	Average number of deaths per 100,000 persons per year.
Region of Death	Region derived from the area location where the patient died. This option includes deaths among non-residents who died in BC.
Region of Residence	Region derived from the patient's residence. This selection includes non-residents of BC who were treated in BC hospitals.
Struck by object	Struck by falling object, striking against or struck by persons or objects, caught unintentionally between objects. Excludes striking against person or object with a fall; injury involving operating machinery or motor vehicle; cutting or piercing instrument; incident resulting in drowning or submersion.
Suffocation/Choking	Inhalation and ingestion of food or objects causing obstruction or of respiratory passage or suffocation; unintentional mechanical suffocation. Includes smothering and choking. Excludes ingestion of a foreign body without respiratory obstruction.
Traffic	A traffic related injury involves any transport incident occurring on a public highway or street.
Undetermined Intent	Injury undetermined whether unintentionally or intentionally inflicted.
Unintentional injury	Injury that is not purposely inflicted, either by the patient or anyone else. In the past, unintentional injuries were referred to as accidental injuries.

This easy-to-use online data tool is to facilitate and simplify access to injury-related mortality and hospitalization data for injury prevention stakeholders in British Columbia. This information can be used as valuable background knowledge in injury prevention research, decision making, priority setting, program evaluation and resource allocation. Collection, use, disclosure and retention of personal information must comply with the provisions of the BC Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act

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