Table 2.

Incidence rate of injury-related visits to the emergency department among Métis people and Albertans, 2013

Injury indicator	Cause of injury	Age-standardized incidence rate			Crude incidence rate of emergency department visits among Métis
		MNA	Alberta*	p value	Location			Gender
					Rural‡	Urban	p value	Female	Male	p value
	All injury (excluding adverse events)†	17,880	13,230	< 0.01	24,350	16,150	< 0.01	15,000	21,030	< 0.01
1	Unintentional falls	4170	3310	< 0.01	4480	3520	< 0.01	4060	3510	< 0.01
2	Struck by or against objects/persons	1810	1440	< 0.01	2340	1550	< 0.01	1360	2210	< 0.01
3	Sports-related injuries	1650	1060	< 0.01	1860	1570	< 0.01	830	2550	< 0.01
4	Overexertion/strenuous movement	1410	1100	< 0.01	1890	1410	< 0.01	1410	1680	0.17
5	Cutting/piercing	1320	970	< 0.01	1870	1280	< 0.01	1050	1870	< 0.01
6	Motor vehicle traffic	880	610	< 0.01	1060	960	< 0.01	990	1020	1.00
7	Natural and environmental factors	790	570	0.04	1190	670	0.04	880	740	0.17
8	Suffocation/foreign body/choking	740	530	0.02	950	680	< 0.01	430	1090	< 0.01
9	Violence and injury purposely inflicted	620	500	0.24	700	670	< 0.01	400	1040	< 0.01
10	Other road vehicle	440	290	0.12	600	350	0.03	290	540	< 0.01
11	All-terrain or other off-road motor vehicle	380	170	0.03	520	280	0.08	190	510	< 0.01
12	Unintentional poisoning	350	320	0.71	320	340	< 0.01	340	350	0.91
13	Fire and flames	290	160	0.16	410	210	0.17	220	320	0.17
14	Suicide and self-inflicted injury	220	160	0.52	170	250	< 0.01	310	160	0.01
15	Machinery	130	120	0.92	240	120	0.40	60	240	< 0.01
16	Motor vehicle non-traffic	100	60	0.63	110	90	0.06	110	100	0.68
17	Undetermined whether unintentionally or purposely inflicted (excluding poisonings)	50	50	0.97	100	60	0.32	80	60	0.62
18	Motor vehicle boarding/alighting	50	50	0.99	80	40	0.56	30	70	0.25
19	Water transport	50	10	0.69	60	50	0.25	10	100	< 0.01
20	Late effects	50	20	0.77	30	20	0.41	10	40	0.10
21	Operations of war/legal intervention	20	10	0.92	20	20	0.32	0	40	0.09
22	Drowning	10	0	0.96	20	10	0.56	0	30	0.25
23	Vehicle incidents not elsewhere classified	20	10	0.93	20	10	0.56	0	30	0.25
24	Air and space transport	0	0	–	0	10	0.86	10	0	0.65
25	Firearms	0	10	0.97	0	10	0.86	0	10	0.65
26	Railway	0	0	–	20	0	0.65	10	0	0.65
27	Other classifiable	40	30	0.90	50	50	0.08	20	90	0.02
28	Other/unspecified	2290	1680	< 0.01	3240	1920	< 0.01	1930	2650	< 0.01

Italics indicates a statistically significant result (p < 0.05)

*Including Métis people. ^†The same person can have multiple events. ^‡40 events were deleted because of unclear postal codes. Incidence rate per 100,000 population

Data sources: Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan Central Stakeholder Registry, Ambulatory Care Database