Table 3.
Incidence rate of injury-related hospital admissions among Métis people and Albertans, 2013
| Injury indicator | Cause of injury | Age-standardized incidence rate | Crude incidence rate of hospital admissions among Métis | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MNA | Alberta* | p value | Location | Gender | ||||||
| Rural‡ | Urban | p value | Female | Male | p value | |||||
| All injury (excluding adverse events)† | 1040 | 820 | 0.05 | 1180 | 780 | < 0.01 | 760 | 1020 | 0.06 | |
| 1 | Unintentional falls | 480 | 380 | 0.33 | 410 | 300 | < 0.01 | 370 | 290 | 0.26 |
| 2 | Motor vehicle traffic | 80 | 60 | 0.83 | 190 | 50 | 0.51 | 60 | 120 | 0.13 |
| 3 | Suicide and self-inflicted injury | 60 | 50 | 0.90 | 50 | 80 | < 0.01 | 100 | 40 | 0.09 |
| 4 | Violence and injury purposely inflicted | 50 | 40 | 0.85 | 60 | 30 | 0.53 | 30 | 60 | 0.21 |
| 5 | All-terrain or other off-road motor vehicle | 40 | 20 | 0.87 | 80 | 20 | 0.74 | 0 | 80 | 0.01 |
| 6 | Sports-related injuries | 40 | 30 | 0.95 | 50 | 30 | 0.32 | 30 | 40 | 0.74 |
| 7 | Unintentional poisoning | 40 | 30 | 0.94 | 0 | 50 | 0.15 | 30 | 40 | 0.74 |
| 8 | Late effects | 30 | 10 | 0.85 | 30 | 30 | 0.16 | 30 | 40 | 0.48 |
| 9 | Other road vehicle | 30 | 20 | 0.91 | 30 | 30 | 0.16 | 20 | 50 | 0.16 |
| 10 | Struck by or against objects/persons | 30 | 20 | 0.95 | 20 | 20 | 0.18 | – | 40 | 0.09 |
| 11 | Overexertion/strenuous movement | 10 | 20 | 0.91 | 0 | 20 | 0.49 | – | 30 | 0.15 |
| 12 | Undetermined whether unintentionally or purposely inflicted (excluding poisonings) | 10 | 10 | 0.95 | 30 | 10 | 1.00 | 30 | 10 | 0.32 |
| 13 | Cutting/piercing | 20 | 10 | 0.97 | 20 | 10 | 0.56 | 10 | 20 | 0.56 |
| 14 | Fire and flames | 20 | 10 | 0.85 | 30 | 0 | 0.41 | 10 | 20 | 0.56 |
| 15 | Firearms | 10 | 0 | 0.93 | 20 | 10 | 1.00 | 10 | 10 | 1.00 |
| 16 | Machinery | 10 | 0 | 0.98 | 20 | 10 | 1.00 | – | 20 | 0.40 |
| 17 | Motor vehicle boarding/alighting | 10 | 0 | 0.96 | 30 | 0 | 0.41 | 20 | – | 0.41 |
| 18 | Natural and environmental factors | 10 | 10 | 0.96 | 30 | 0 | 0.41 | 10 | 10 | 1.00 |
| 19 | Motor vehicle non-traffic | 0 | 0 | 0.98 | 20 | 0 | 0.65 | 0 | 10 | 0.65 |
| 20 | Suffocation/foreign body/choking | 0 | 20 | 0.88 | 0 | 10 | 0.86 | 0 | 10 | 0.65 |
| 21 | Air and space transport | 0 | 0 | 1.00 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22 | Drowning | 0 | 0 | 0.99 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23 | Operations of war/legal intervention | 0 | 0 | 0.99 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24 | Railway | 0 | 0 | 1.00 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25 | Vehicle incidents not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 1.00 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26 | Water transport | 0 | 0 | 0.99 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27 | Other classifiable | 0 | 0 | 0.98 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28 | Other/unspecified | 60 | 50 | 0.92 | 60 | 40 | 0.37 | 30 | 70 | 0.13 |
Italics indicates a statistically significant result (p < 0.05)
*Including Métis people. †The same person can have multiple events. ‡2 events were deleted because of unclear postal codes. Incidence rate per 100,000 population
Data sources: Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan Central Stakeholder Registry, Hospital Discharge Abstract Database