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13:21:01 on Mon, 15 Sep 2008, dkahn400  
remarked:
>> >STATS19 defines a "serious injury" as an injury for which a person is
>> >detained in hospital as an "in-patient" or any of the following
>> >injuries whether or not they are detained in hospital: fractures,
>> >concussion, internal injuries, crushings, non-friction burns, severe
>> >cuts and lacerations, severe general shock requiring medical treatment
>> >and injuries causing death 30 or more days after the accident.
>> >Therefore any casualty admitted as an in-patient to a hospital
>> >overnight should be recorded as "seriously injured".
>>
>> So plenty of pretty damaging things excluded from that.
>
>All injuries are damaging by definition. What sort of injury would you
>describe as "serious" but not in the above list?

Serious to the person injured (but not appearing in the statistics 
either because they are unreported, or don't 'make the grade')... things 
like bruising or sprains that cause the subject to take time off work.
-- 
Roland Perry