Epidemiologic patterns of injuries treated at the emergency department of a Swedish medical center

Table 1 Injury numbers categorized by injury type and mechanism, for ages 20 and above, during years 1999 to 2008

Year	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Midyear population	102,010	102,538	103,101	104,005	105,310	106,600	107,919	108,769	109,182	109,788
Incidence per 10,000 persons-years	649	621	634	650	636	614	637	661	669	661
Injuries
Men	3,711	3,590	3,638	3,769	3,611	3,613	3,776	3,886	3,953	3,899
Women	2,912	2,782	2,901	2,989	3,088	2,929	3,094	3,309	3,350	3,358
Injury category
Fracture	1,615	1,508	1,701	1,662	1,700	1,561	1,710	1,897	1,896	1,859
Wound	1,557	1,482	1,413	1,489	1,510	1,496	1,554	1,549	1,744	1,729
Contusion	1,142	1,131	1,355	1,497	1,455	1,482	1,509	1,635	1,637	1,745
Sprain	1,111	1,107	1,220	1,292	1,237	1,161	1,213	1,303	1,436	1,345
Concussion	218	271	210	201	200	205	227	247	215	218
Other	980	873	640	617	597	637	657	564	373	361
Injury mechanism
Fall	2,730	2,700	2,920	3,007	3,011	2,840	3,026	3,299	3,235	3,215
Bicycle	379	360	376	376	336	340	361	384	386	405
Motorvehicle	489	496	524	564	554	496	515	541	607	542
Violence	251	230	217	221	253	232	262	238	284	257
Self harm	78	41	71	52	162	126	112	106	69	57
Injuries from heat, cold, poison, electricity, explosive	136	103	135	100	201	200	153	159	109	121
Overstrain	325	347	333	428	356	398	486	420	449	492
Sport	877	901	882	901	850	857	819	864	846	822
Foreign body	298	270	254	231	189	214	246	191	147	109
Other	1,060	924	827	878	787	839	890	993	1,171	1,237

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