Table 1 Relative risk of children aged 1–4 years being hospitalized for an unintentional poisoning event (compared with children aged <1 year) by single year of age and Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA) category: New South Wales, 1998–2005 ARIA category | Relative Risk (95% CI) |
Age 1 | Age 2 | Age 3 | Age 4 |
Remote/very remote | 1.4 (0.5 to 4.1) | 0.9 (0.3 to 2.7) | 0.8 (0.2 to 2.6) | 0.7 (0.2 to 3.3) |
Outer regional | 5.2 (3.5 to 7.7) | 6.9 (4.7 to 10.1) | 3.6 (2.4 to 5.4) | 1.2 (0.8 to 1.9) |
Inner regional | 3.2 (2.5 to 4.2) | 5.3 (4.2 to 6.8) | 2.1 (1.6 to 2.7) | 0.7 (0.5 to 1.0) |
Metropolitan | 4.0 (3.4 to 4.8) | 5.1 (4.4 to 6.1) | 2.3 (1.9 to 2.7) | 1.0 (0.8 to 1.2) |