{"id":1780,"date":"2023-07-18T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T01:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2024-06-05T13:56:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T03:56:15","slug":"qti-0624","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/qti\/qti-0624","title":{"rendered":"Road trauma-related hospitalisations in Queensland public acute hospitals: 01 Jan 2019 to 31 Dec 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Road trauma-related hospitalisations in Queensland public acute hospitals: 01 Jan 2019 to 31 Dec 2022<\/h1>\n

Queensland Trauma Insights – July 2023<\/h2><\/h1><\/div>
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Background<\/h2>\n

This report presents patterns and trends in road trauma related hospitalisations in Queensland public acute hospitals over a four-year time-period from 2019 to 2022 covering the pre-pandemic (2019), pandemic (2020) and post-pandemic (2021-22) years as part of an expanded surveillance and monitoring activity.<\/p>\n

Key findings<\/h2>\n

Between 01 Jan 2019 to 31 Dec 2022:<\/p>\n

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  • 35,179 road trauma related hospitalisations occurred in Queensland public acute hospitals.<\/li>\n
  • Trend analysis using a moving average time series trend line shows that the monthly number of hospitalisations were slightly higher in 2019 and gradually decreased in early 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown and broader pandemic closure. Numbers gradually increased in 2021 after the pandemic lock down restrictions were lifted. This upward trend peaked after Queensland state borders were opened. During 2022 road trauma hospitalisations decreased to pre-pandemic 2019 levels.<\/li>\n
  • Car\/Pick-up van related hospitalisations accounted for almost 60% of all road trauma related hospitalisations. Motorcyclists accounted for 23% of all road trauma related hospitalisations. Other vulnerable road users such pedestrians and bicyclists accounted for 16% of all road trauma related hospitalisations.<\/li>\n
  • However, motorcycle riders (4 days) and pedestrians (4.5 days) experienced a longer average length of hospital stay (LOS) in days compared to car and pick up van drivers (2.5 days).<\/li>\n
  • Males aged between 20-29 years had the highest incidence of road trauma related hospitalisations (N=5061, 14%).<\/li>\n
  • Injuries to the upper and other lower extremities and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) were the leading body region of injury sustained following a road trauma related hospitalisation accounting for 36% and 16% of all hospitalisations respectively.<\/li>\n
  • Fractures were the main injury sustained accounting for more than third of all hospitalisations (N=13,283, 38%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Key figures<\/h2>\n<\/div>