Incident type of emergency department attendances by the NCD and TIIG recoded dataset, 2009/2010
| Injury category | Incident type | NCD | TIIG dataset |
| Intentional | Assault | 2035 | 2035 |
| Firearm | – | 2 | |
| Deliberate self-harm | 662 | 662 | |
| Unintentional | Road traffic collision | 3497 | 3497 |
| Sports injury | 1354 | 1354 | |
| Fall | – | 15 910 | |
| Struck (blunt object) | – | 4926 | |
| Wound/cut | – | 2649 | |
| Burn/scold | – | 367 | |
| Bite | – | 378 | |
| Ingestion | – | 338 | |
| Inhalation | – | 56 | |
| Non-fire burn/scold | – | 43 | |
| Electrical | – | 14 | |
| Drown/immersion | – | 11 | |
| Other injury (including fireworks) | 15 275 | 3455 | |
| Total injury attendances | 22 823 | 35 697 | |
| Other attendances (eg, surgical/medical problem) | 66 865 | 53 991 | |
| Total attendances | 89 688 | ||
The emergency department collects additional data on injury type (eg, fall/burn) in a separate field to the NCD injury group field. Here, data collection methods mean that an attendance can be recorded as ‘other injury’ within the NCD injury grouping yet still be identified as a fall- or burn-related injury, for example, in the addition field. TIIG combine fields to provide partners with the most detailed and useful data on injury type, with each attendee categorised into one injury group.
NCD, national commissioning dataset; TIIG, Trauma and Injury Intelligence Group.