Analysis of epidemiological characteristics of acute trauma hospitalized patients
LIU Hua
LI Bing
RUAN Hai-lin
YANG Jia-you
Abstract：Objective To summarize epidemiological characteristics of acute trauma hospitalized patients for providing the scientific basis to prevention and treatment of trauma .Method Collected the clinical data of acute trauma hospitalized patients in the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University during the year of 2008 to 2012 .All data were re-corded by the trauma database V3.0 software and analyzed on factors of gender , age, injury time, injury area, severity, outcome and death .Results There were 4 096 acute trauma patients with relatively intact information .72 .05%of them were male, young and middle-aged patients occupied 69.68%.During one year, the top trauma hospitalization happened in January and October , whereas June occurred the least hospitalization .During one day , the maximum cases of trauma happened between 9 to 13 o'clock and the time from 3 to 7 am occupied the least incidence .35.91%of patients got multi-ple injuries, lower extremity injury and craniocerebral injury stayed on the second place .Traffic trauma and fall/falling in-jury had been considered as the leading causes of injury (77.64%).Additionally, traffic trauma and falling injury were al-so the main causes of death (89.43%).Conclusions The epidemiological characteristics of hospitalized patients with trauma in this region is that it happens mostly in young and middle-aged men , meanwhile the highest proportion of injury occurs in January for every year , the severe injury also has a higher percentage traffic injury and fall /falling injury are con-sidered as the causes .
Keywords：traumatrauma epidemiologytrauma treatment
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 19-21 )