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A study on injuries sustained in road traffic accidents at a tertiary care level
Aims: The study was done to find out the types of injuries, modes of road traffic accidents and case fatality rate of road traffic accident cases from 1 st April 2005 to 31 st March 2010 in a tertiary care hospital. Materials and Methods: The retrospective study conducted on hospitalized patients ad...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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International Journal of Environmental Health Engineering
2014
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005691.pdf |
| Summary: | Aims: The study was done to find out the types of injuries, modes of road traffic
accidents and case fatality rate of road traffic accident cases from 1 st April 2005
to 31 st March 2010 in a tertiary care hospital.
Materials and Methods: The retrospective study conducted on hospitalized
patients admitted with road traffic accidents in a tertiary care level from 1 st April
2005 to 31 st March 2010. Data collected from the registers maintained in the
medical records department, follows the guidelines of International Classification
of Diseases-10 coding.
Results: Of the 7,660 road traffic accident cases reported in a hospital from
1 st April 2005 to 31 st March 2010. Most of the cases and deaths were occurred in
the age group of 15-44 years. Total deaths occurred due to road traffic accident
was 249 (3.25%). Motorcycle rider injured in road traffic accident was more
except other land transport accidents during the period from 2005 to 2010. Of
the road traffic accident cases, fractures (42.7%) were more than superficial
injuries (18.56%) and dislocations (2.6%).
Conclusion: This study mentioned that most of the cases and deaths were
occurred in 15-44 years. Accidents of the economically productive people will
affect their family. Hence to reduce the road traffic accidents by conducting
public awareness program and strict enforcement of traffic rules. |
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| Physical Description: | Vol. 3 • Issue 1 January-February 2014 |