Unintentional Hospital-Treated Injury Victoria 2024/25 Edition 33

This is the thirty-third in a series of regular E-Bulletins that provide an overview of the injury profile for Victoria. This edition provides an overview of unintentional hospital-treated injury in 2024/25 utilising two injury surveillance datasets that separately record hospital admissions and Emergency Department (ED) presentations for injury. The case selection criteria used in this edition remain the same as those used in the previous edition. Summary Results There were 149,062 injury cases admitted to Victorian hospitals in 2024/25, of which 91.2% were unintentional (n=135,961). At least 428,950 injury cases presented to Victorian EDs, 85.3% of which were unintentional (n=365,868). Data Sources Hospital admissions data were extracted from the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED) and ED presentations data from the Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD). The VAED records all hospital admissions in public and private hospitals in the state of Victoria and the VEMD records all presentations to Victorian public hospitals with 24-hour emergency departments.