Assessing the completeness of coded and narrative data from the Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset using injuries sustained during fitness activities as a case study

Table 1 The proportion of missing information in narrative and unspecified injury variables reported in the VEMD

	for ANY injury variable		for ALL injury variables
	n	%	n	%
parent coded data ‘unspecified’	882	30.0	55	1.9
parent coded data uninformative	1896	64.6	56	1.9
narrative missing some detail	2814	95.8	N/A	N/A
narrative missing detail AND parent coded data ‘unspecified’	866	29.5	54	1.8
narrative missing detail AND parent coded data uninformative	1851	63.0	55	1.9

Note: there cannot be all of the narrative unspecified, because the case would not have been selected in the targeted text search inclusion criteria. Column titles apply to the parent coded data. Uninformative includes both ‘unspecified’ and ‘other specified’ parent coded variables

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