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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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| Materialtyp: | Printed Book |
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International Journal of Environmental Health Engineering
2014
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| Länkar: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005691.pdf |
| LEADER | 01897nam a22001337a 4500 | ||
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| 100 | |a Thalappillil Mathew Celine, Jimmy Antony |9 29903 | ||
| 245 | |a A study on injuries sustained in road traffic accidents at a tertiary care level | ||
| 260 | |b International Journal of Environmental Health Engineering |c 2014 | ||
| 300 | |b Vol. 3 • Issue 1 January-February 2014 | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 856 | |u http://10.26.1.76/ks/005691.pdf | ||
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| 952 | |0 0 |1 0 |4 0 |7 0 |9 73215 |a MGUL |b MGUL |d 2016-04-01 |l 0 |r 2016-04-01 |w 2016-04-01 |y KS | ||