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Retrospective Analysis of Injuries and Hospitalizations of Patients Following the 2009 Earthquake of L’Aquila City

The aim of this study was to investigate the injury patterns and the hospitalizations of patients who were admitted to hospital following the 2009 earthquake in the city of L’Aquila, Central Italy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to analyze the patterns of earthquake-related in...

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Autores principales: Del Papa, Jacopo, Vittorini, Pierpaolo, D’Aloisio, Francesco, Muselli, Mario, Giuliani, Anna Rita, Mascitelli, Alfonso, Fabiani, Leila
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6571652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31091681
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101675
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author Del Papa, Jacopo
Vittorini, Pierpaolo
D’Aloisio, Francesco
Muselli, Mario
Giuliani, Anna Rita
Mascitelli, Alfonso
Fabiani, Leila
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Vittorini, Pierpaolo
D’Aloisio, Francesco
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description The aim of this study was to investigate the injury patterns and the hospitalizations of patients who were admitted to hospital following the 2009 earthquake in the city of L’Aquila, Central Italy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to analyze the patterns of earthquake-related injuries in Italy. We reviewed the hospital discharge data of 171 patients admitted to hospital within the following 96 h from the mainshock. This is an observational and descriptive study: We controlled for variables such as patient demographics, primary and secondary ICD-9-CM (International Classification of Diseases) diagnosis codes in order to identify the multiple injured patients, main type of injury that resulted in the hospital admission, discharge disposition, and average length of stay (LOS). Seventy-three percent of the 171 patients were admitted to hospital on the first day. Multiple injuries accounted for 52% of all trauma admissions, with a female to male ratio of 63% versus 37%. The most common type of injuries involved bone fractures (46.8%), while lower extremities were the most frequently affected sites (38.75%). The average LOS was 12.11 days. This study allows the evaluation of the impact of earthquake-related injuries in relation both to the health needs of the victims and to the use of the health care resources and assistance.
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spelling pubmed-65716522019-06-18 Retrospective Analysis of Injuries and Hospitalizations of Patients Following the 2009 Earthquake of L’Aquila City Del Papa, Jacopo Vittorini, Pierpaolo D’Aloisio, Francesco Muselli, Mario Giuliani, Anna Rita Mascitelli, Alfonso Fabiani, Leila Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The aim of this study was to investigate the injury patterns and the hospitalizations of patients who were admitted to hospital following the 2009 earthquake in the city of L’Aquila, Central Italy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to analyze the patterns of earthquake-related injuries in Italy. We reviewed the hospital discharge data of 171 patients admitted to hospital within the following 96 h from the mainshock. This is an observational and descriptive study: We controlled for variables such as patient demographics, primary and secondary ICD-9-CM (International Classification of Diseases) diagnosis codes in order to identify the multiple injured patients, main type of injury that resulted in the hospital admission, discharge disposition, and average length of stay (LOS). Seventy-three percent of the 171 patients were admitted to hospital on the first day. Multiple injuries accounted for 52% of all trauma admissions, with a female to male ratio of 63% versus 37%. The most common type of injuries involved bone fractures (46.8%), while lower extremities were the most frequently affected sites (38.75%). The average LOS was 12.11 days. This study allows the evaluation of the impact of earthquake-related injuries in relation both to the health needs of the victims and to the use of the health care resources and assistance. MDPI 2019-05-14 2019-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6571652/ /pubmed/31091681 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101675 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Fabiani, Leila
Retrospective Analysis of Injuries and Hospitalizations of Patients Following the 2009 Earthquake of L’Aquila City
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title_sort retrospective analysis of injuries and hospitalizations of patients following the 2009 earthquake of l’aquila city
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6571652/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101675
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