Hospitalisation for gastroenteritis in Western Australia

Hospitalisation for gastroenteritis in Western Australia.

AIMS To document gastroenteritis hospitalisations of the 1995-96 cohort of infants born in Western Australia to mid-2002, and to assess factors associated with their hospitalisations and readmissions. METHODS Retrospective analysis of the State's hospitalisation data, Midwives' Notification of Births data, the Australian Bureau of Statistics mortality data and clinical and demographic informa...

Hospitalisation Incidence for Acute Cerebrovascular Disease in Western Australia, 1989 to 1998:

Estimating Foodborne Gastroenteritis, Australia

We estimated for Australia the number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths due to foodborne gastroenteritis in a typical year, circa 2000. The total amount of infectious gastroenteritis was measured by using a national telephone survey. The foodborne proportion was estimated from Australian data on each of 16 pathogens. To account for uncertainty, we used simulation techniques to calculate 95...

Trends in road injury hospitalisation rates for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Western Australia, 1971-97.

OBJECTIVE To examine trends in road injury hospitalisation rates for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Western Australia. METHODS Data from the Western Australian Hospital Morbidity Data System for the years between 1971 and 1997 were analysed. Poisson regression models were fitted to determine whether the trends were significant. RESULTS The rate of hospitalisation due to road injury...

Hospitalisation rates for children with intellectual disability or autism born in Western Australia 1983–1999: a population-based cohort study

OBJECTIVES To describe the hospitalisation patterns in children with intellectual disability (ID) and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) after the first year of life and compare with those unaffected. DESIGN Prospective cohort study using data linkage between health, ID and hospitalisation population-based datasets. SETTING Western Australia. PARTICIPANTS 416 611 individuals born between 1...