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Epidemiology of injuries presenting to the accident centre of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana
BACKGROUND: Injuries directly lead to 5 million deaths every year, accounting for 9% of all deaths worldwide. While knowledge of the pattern of injuries is essential to plan health interventions to reduce the incidence of injuries, these are not thoroughly described in Ghana. The aim of this study w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6642582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31325955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-019-0252-3 |
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author | Blankson, Paa-Kwesi Amoako, Joachim K. A. Asah-Opoku, Kwaku Odei-Ansong, Francis Lartey, Margaret Y. |
author_facet | Blankson, Paa-Kwesi Amoako, Joachim K. A. Asah-Opoku, Kwaku Odei-Ansong, Francis Lartey, Margaret Y. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Injuries directly lead to 5 million deaths every year, accounting for 9% of all deaths worldwide. While knowledge of the pattern of injuries is essential to plan health interventions to reduce the incidence of injuries, these are not thoroughly described in Ghana. The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology of injuries seen at the Accident centre of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana’s main referral hospital. METHOD: A retrospective review of two-year records of all patients who attended the Accident centre of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital from January 2016 to December 2017 was done. Data on the cause of injuries was the main focus of this review. RESULTS: A total of 17,860 patients’ records were included in the study. There were 12,116 (67.8%) males and 5,744 (32.2%) females. The ages of the patients seen during the period ranged from three (3) days to 101 years. The overall mean age was 27.9 (±18.2). Majority of the injuries resulted from road traffic accidents and falls, accounting for 39.1 and 19.7% respectively. CONCLUSION: Road Traffic accidents (RTA), especially motorcycle related, are a significant cause of injuries in Ghana. Future studies should focus on interventions that can reduce the incidence of RTA’s to reduce the number of injuries that present to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. |
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spelling | pubmed-66425822019-07-29 Epidemiology of injuries presenting to the accident centre of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana Blankson, Paa-Kwesi Amoako, Joachim K. A. Asah-Opoku, Kwaku Odei-Ansong, Francis Lartey, Margaret Y. BMC Emerg Med Research Article BACKGROUND: Injuries directly lead to 5 million deaths every year, accounting for 9% of all deaths worldwide. While knowledge of the pattern of injuries is essential to plan health interventions to reduce the incidence of injuries, these are not thoroughly described in Ghana. The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology of injuries seen at the Accident centre of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana’s main referral hospital. METHOD: A retrospective review of two-year records of all patients who attended the Accident centre of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital from January 2016 to December 2017 was done. Data on the cause of injuries was the main focus of this review. RESULTS: A total of 17,860 patients’ records were included in the study. There were 12,116 (67.8%) males and 5,744 (32.2%) females. The ages of the patients seen during the period ranged from three (3) days to 101 years. The overall mean age was 27.9 (±18.2). Majority of the injuries resulted from road traffic accidents and falls, accounting for 39.1 and 19.7% respectively. CONCLUSION: Road Traffic accidents (RTA), especially motorcycle related, are a significant cause of injuries in Ghana. Future studies should focus on interventions that can reduce the incidence of RTA’s to reduce the number of injuries that present to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. BioMed Central 2019-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6642582/ /pubmed/31325955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-019-0252-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Blankson, Paa-Kwesi Amoako, Joachim K. A. Asah-Opoku, Kwaku Odei-Ansong, Francis Lartey, Margaret Y. Epidemiology of injuries presenting to the accident centre of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana |
title | Epidemiology of injuries presenting to the accident centre of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana |
title_full | Epidemiology of injuries presenting to the accident centre of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana |
title_fullStr | Epidemiology of injuries presenting to the accident centre of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana |
title_full_unstemmed | Epidemiology of injuries presenting to the accident centre of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana |
title_short | Epidemiology of injuries presenting to the accident centre of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana |
title_sort | epidemiology of injuries presenting to the accident centre of korle-bu teaching hospital, ghana |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6642582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31325955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-019-0252-3 |
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