Table 2.
Number of additional inpatient admissions and days of stay in the 12 months post-injury, by International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9 subchapters and injury severity score (ISS) of the index injury
| |
Number of subjects |
Additional inpatient* |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Injury (ICD-9CM subchapters) | Accesses | Days | |
| Intracranial injury (850–854) |
483 |
510 |
1.586 |
| Fracture of upper limb (810–819) |
912 |
1028 |
1.776 |
| Fracture of lower limb (820–829) |
347 |
434 |
1.247 |
| Contusion with skin intact (920–924) |
82 |
106 |
324 |
| Fracture of skull (800–804) |
136 |
151 |
674 |
| Toxic effects of substances (980–989) |
79 |
100 |
166 |
| Complications and unspecified injuries (958–959) |
127 |
145 |
287 |
| Poisonings (960–979) |
69 |
71 |
179 |
| Burns (940–949) |
80 |
85 |
762 |
| Open wound of head, neck, and trunk (870–879) |
140 |
139 |
229 |
| Effects of foreign body entering orifice (930–939) |
122 |
126 |
211 |
| Internal injury of thorax, abdomen, and pelvis (860–869) |
61 |
61 |
377 |
| Open wound of upper limb (880–887) |
71 |
94 |
263 |
| Sprains and strains (840–848) |
38 |
40 |
89 |
| Fracture of neck and trunk (805–809) |
27 |
32 |
85 |
| Dislocation (830–839) |
16 |
16 |
43 |
| Open wound of lower limb (890–897) |
32 |
31 |
161 |
| Other unspecified (990–994) |
13 |
17 |
40 |
| Superficial injury (910–919) |
18 |
17 |
32 |
| Injury to nerves and spinal cord (950–957) |
14 |
13 |
−51 |
| Injury to blood vessels (900–904) |
2 |
3 |
49 |
| Crushing injury (925–929) |
14 |
14 |
21 |
|
ISS score |
|
|
|
| Minor (1–8) |
2172 |
2401 |
5319 |
| Moderate (9–15) |
97 |
146 |
570 |
| Severe (≥16) |
57 |
73 |
680 |
| N.A. |
557 |
613 |
1981 |
| Total | 2883 | 3233 | 8550 |
*: difference in total hospital admissions (accesses) and cumulative length of stay (days) in the 12 months after and before the index injury occurrence.