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BC Children's Hospital Injury-Related Emergency Visits, 2007-2021

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Broken down By:
Year:
Month:
Day:
Date of Injury:
Age Group:
Sex:
Cause of Injury:
Intent:
Type of Injury:
Body Part Injured:
Place of Occurrence:
Activity when Injured:
Sport Activity:
Safety Device Used:
Admission:
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Data source: BC Children’s Hospital, Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP), BCIRPU Injury Data Online Tool
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BC Children's Hospital Injury-Related Emergency Visits, 2007-2021

Broken down By:

Year:

Month:

Day:

Date of Injury:

Age Group:

Sex:

Cause of Injury:

Intent:

Type of Injury:

Body Part Injured:

Place of Occurrence:

Activity when Injured:

Sport Activity:

Safety Device Used:

Admission:

Query Date:

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Data source: BC Children’s Hospital, Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP), BCIRPU Injury Data Online Tool

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TERM	DESCRIPTION
Activity when injured	Describes what the patient was doing or what type of activity they were engaged in at the time of the injury. This information is dependent on what is reported by the patient or their families. Please note that there will be missing cases if this section on the report form is not completed.
Assault/ Maltreatment	The infliction of fatal or non-fatal injuries by another person, by any means, with intent to kill or injure. Injuries resulting from legal intervention and operations of war are excluded.
Cutting	Injury caused by cutting instrument or object; fall on sharp object; powered hand tools or appliances.
Drowning & Submersion	Accidental drowning or submersion involving watercraft, fall or activity in water. Excludes watercraft incident not involving drowning or submersions and all other transport injuries; injuries due to diving and striking pool.
Environmental/ Natural factors	Including bitten or struck by dog, bitten or struck by other animals (rat, other mammals, and marine animal), contact with venomous animals and plants (venomous insect and other venomous arthropods) and other environmental factors (such as exposure to forces of nature).
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; discharge of firework, 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.
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.
Missing/Unknown/unspecified	Information that is not recorded on the CHIRPP form or patient chart is coded as missing, unknown, or unspecified. For example, if the form indicates the child fell off a slide, but does not specify if the slide was in the backyard, at the local park, etc., the location will be listed as missing, unknown, or unspecified.
Off-road Vehicle	Non-traffic injuries involving off-road motor vehicles such as all-terrain vehicles
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	A pedestrian is 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.
Place of occurrence	Location, and or area where the injury event occurred.
Rate	Rates have been calculated as (number of cases/ total CHIRPP cases) x 100,000.
Struck by/against	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	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.
Suicide & Self-inflicted	Fatal or non-fatal injuries purposefully caused by the victim to him/herself.
Transport Related	Involves a device designed primarily for, or being used at the time primarily for, conveying persons or goods from one place to another. This includes land, water, air and space transport.
Undetermined Intent	The intent of the injury is not known and could be either 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.
Poisoning	Including unintentional and intentioanl overdose of drugs, medicaments and biological substances, poisoning by alcohol, chemicals, house products and other noxious substances. Excludes adverse reactions to drugs used properly and as directed.

This easy-to-use online data tool is to facilitate and simplify stakeholders’ access to statistics based on data from BC Children’s Hospitals, collected for the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP). 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

The statistics generated are 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.

Although the data are 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.

Data is obtained from the BC Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP). The CHIRPP data have been provided by the Public Health Agency of Canada. BCIRPU has made every effort to clean and aggregate the data and to ensure accurate and reliable 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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Funding for this tool was provided by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The opinions expressed on this web site are those of the authors/researchers and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

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