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Query Criteria:
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Broken down By:
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Admission:
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Age Group:
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Body Part:
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Month:
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Nature of Injury:
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Sex:
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Treating Region:
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Type of Injury:
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Year:
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Query Date:
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Query Results:
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Note: * represents a number less than 5
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Note: Not all hospitals in BC submit to NACRS. The tool presents data from hospitals submitting to NACRS, and that are complete for the region.
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Data Source: British Columbia Ministry of Health [creator] (2025). National Ambulatory Care Reporting System. British Columbia Ministry of Health [publisher]. Data Extract. Ministry of Health (2025).
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/health-forms/online-services
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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).
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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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TERM
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DESCRIPTION
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Type of Injury
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The injury or illness in terms of its principal physical characteristics. It is classified based on its cause or mechanism, and includes burns, poisoning, drowning, and the presence of a foreign body.
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Nature of Injury
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Describes how the injury occurred or the type of damage caused to the body, such as fracture, dislocation or sprain.
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Body Part
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The body part, or bodily system, directly affected by an injury or disease identified in the nature of injury classification.
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Region of Treating Facility
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Region derived from the facility (hospital) where the patient was treated.
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Asphyxia
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A condition caused by insufficient oxygen supply to the body due to low oxygen levels in the surrounding air or a mechanical threat to breathing.
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Drowning/Submersion
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Accidental drowning or submersion either as a fall or activity in water.
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Maltreatment/Abuse
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The infliction non-fatal injuries by another person, by any means, on an adult or child.
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Environmental
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Includes heatstroke and sunstroke, as well as other environmental factors such as frostbite, toxic effects of venom animal, radiation effects, effects of heat and light, hypothermia, decompression sickness, barotrauma, and effects of lightening.
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Foreign Body
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An object that enters the body through inhalation, ingestion, or penetration, which is not naturally present and may cause injury or obstruction.
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Poisoning
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Includes narcotic and hallucinogen drug poisoning, alcohol poisoning, and other drug poisoning, such as poisoning by salicylates, acetaminophen, benzodiazepines, psychotropics, cardiotropic, other substances, or unspecified substances.
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Other Injury
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In NACRS, 'Other Injury' refers specifically to cases where the ICD-10 code does not fall under asphyxia, burns, drowning, environmental injuries, foreign body, maltreatment, or poisoning. In NACRS data, this category only includes electrocution.
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This easy-to-use online data tool is to facilitate and simplify access to injury-related emergency department 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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The data generated is only intended to be a general summary of information on injuries and should not be considered as a replacement of official statistics for provincial or local authorities. Attempting to identify an individual by cross-checking the information or linking these data with other datasets or information is strictly prohibited. Cases that are less than 5 are represented with * to protect the privacy and confidentiality of the patient. If the identity of an individual described in a data set is discovered inadvertently, please ensure that there is no disclosure of this information and report this to BCIRPU immediately.
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Although the data is ready for outputting into desktop applications (i.e. word, excel, text), it is not permitted for commercial use or profit, promotion, resale, or publication in whole or in part without written permission from BCIRPU.
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The original source of injury emergency department data has been provided by the Ministry of Health. BCIRPU has made every effort to clean and aggregate the data and to ensure the accuracy, reliability and up-to-date of this information. If you believe any information obtained from this website is incorrect, please contact BCIRPU so that we may correct any inaccuracies. Unauthorized attempt to change or upload information is strictly prohibited.
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Furthermore, BCIRPU is not responsible for the content of the websites to which it may link, or for the messages and materials sent, posted or uploaded by users. Under no circumstances will BCIRPU be liable for losses or damages of any kind resulting from the use of information, tools or resources found on this or any other linked website.
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For further information please contact
BCIRPU
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