{"id":1063,"date":"2021-06-30T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T03:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute-new\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2022-06-27T13:16:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T03:16:45","slug":"qti-0621","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/qti\/qti-0621","title":{"rendered":"Quad bike related injury hospitalisations in Queensland public acute hospitals between 2016 and 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quad bike related injury hospitalisations in Queensland public acute hospitals between 2016 and 2020<\/h1>\n

Queensland Trauma Insights –\u00a0June 2021<\/h2><\/h1><\/div>

Authors:<\/strong> Dr Shahera Banu Last updated on 24 June 2021<\/p>\n

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Background<\/h2>\n

Quad bike-related crashes are still a major cause of accidental deaths and serious injuries on Australian farms. In Australia since 2011 there have been a 161 recorded quad bike deaths, including 24 children under 16 years of age (Safe Work Australia \u2013 current as at 18 March 2021)*. About 50% of these fatalities were workers and 11% were children aged 11 years or under. Rollover due to losing control of a quad bike was the leading cause of quad bike fatalities (Safe Work Australia)*. It has been 5 years since an in-depth analysis of quad bike related injuries was conducted in Queensland. The following snapshot shows contemporaneous trends in Quad bike related injury hospitalisations in the most recent 5 years. *https:\/\/www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au\/quad-bikes<\/small><\/p>\n

Key findings<\/h2>\n

Between 01 Jan 2016 and 31 Dec 2020:<\/p>\n

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  • 2,645 quad bikes related injury hospitalisations occurred in Qld public acute hospitals.<\/li>\n
  • Males aged between 15-24 years had the highest incidence.<\/li>\n
  • About 10% of hospitalisation in each year were work related and more than 20% were due to sports and leisure activities.<\/li>\n
  • Fracture was identified as the main injury (N=1,275, 48%).<\/li>\n
  • 6% of hospitalisations were funded by health service budget and 14.4% were covered by private health insurance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Key figures<\/h2>\n

    Trends over time<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Activity\/Outcome<\/th>\n2016<\/th>\n2017<\/th>\n2018<\/th>\n2019<\/th>\n2020<\/strong><\/th>\nTotal<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Episodes of care<\/td>\n517<\/td>\n412<\/td>\n614<\/td>\n511<\/td>\n591<\/td>\n2,645<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Patient days<\/td>\n1,510<\/td>\n1,159<\/td>\n1,670<\/td>\n1,281<\/td>\n1,680<\/td>\n7,300<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Av Length of stay<\/td>\n2.9<\/td>\n2.8<\/td>\n2.7<\/td>\n2.5<\/td>\n2.8<\/td>\n2.8<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    % Died in hospital<\/td>\n0.4<\/td>\n0.5<\/td>\n0.2<\/td>\n0.4<\/td>\n0.5<\/td>\n0.4<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n