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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries: a retrospective study

BACKGROUND: Fall-related injuries are important public health problem worldwide. We aimed to describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries in a level 1 trauma center. METHOD: A retrospective analysis of Qatar Trauma Registry data was conducted on patients admitte...

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Autores principales: Mekkodathil, Ahammed, El-Menyar, Ayman, Kanbar, Ahad, Hakim, Suhail, Ahmed, Khalid, Siddiqui, Tariq, Al-Thani, Hassan
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7388431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32727594
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09268-2
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author Mekkodathil, Ahammed
El-Menyar, Ayman
Kanbar, Ahad
Hakim, Suhail
Ahmed, Khalid
Siddiqui, Tariq
Al-Thani, Hassan
author_facet Mekkodathil, Ahammed
El-Menyar, Ayman
Kanbar, Ahad
Hakim, Suhail
Ahmed, Khalid
Siddiqui, Tariq
Al-Thani, Hassan
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description BACKGROUND: Fall-related injuries are important public health problem worldwide. We aimed to describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries in a level 1 trauma center. METHOD: A retrospective analysis of Qatar Trauma Registry data was conducted on patients admitted for fall-related injuries between 2010 and 2017. Comparative analyses of data by gender, age-groups and height of falls were performed to describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients, and in-hospital outcomes. RESULTS: A total of 4040 patients with fall-related injuries were identified in the study duration which corresponds to the rate of 2.34 per 10,000 population. Although the rate of fall-related injuries decreased over the years, the average number of patients per year remained high accounting for 32% of the hospitalized patients with moderate to severe injuries. Most of the injuries affected the head (36%) followed by spines (29%) and chest (23%). Males were predominant (89%), more likely to fall at workplace, fall from a greater height and have polytrauma than females. The working age-group (20–59 years) constituted the majority of injured (73%) and were more likely to fall at workplace, and to fall from higher heights compared to the older adults who sustained more fall at home. Overall in-hospital mortality was 3%. Outcomes including longer hospital length of stay and mortality were generally correlated with the height of fall except for the fall at home. CONCLUSION: Fall-related injuries remain as significant burden even in a level 1 trauma center. Variations in the pattern of injuries by age, gender and height of fall provide important information for targeted preventive measures.
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spelling pubmed-73884312020-07-29 Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries: a retrospective study Mekkodathil, Ahammed El-Menyar, Ayman Kanbar, Ahad Hakim, Suhail Ahmed, Khalid Siddiqui, Tariq Al-Thani, Hassan BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Fall-related injuries are important public health problem worldwide. We aimed to describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries in a level 1 trauma center. METHOD: A retrospective analysis of Qatar Trauma Registry data was conducted on patients admitted for fall-related injuries between 2010 and 2017. Comparative analyses of data by gender, age-groups and height of falls were performed to describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients, and in-hospital outcomes. RESULTS: A total of 4040 patients with fall-related injuries were identified in the study duration which corresponds to the rate of 2.34 per 10,000 population. Although the rate of fall-related injuries decreased over the years, the average number of patients per year remained high accounting for 32% of the hospitalized patients with moderate to severe injuries. Most of the injuries affected the head (36%) followed by spines (29%) and chest (23%). Males were predominant (89%), more likely to fall at workplace, fall from a greater height and have polytrauma than females. The working age-group (20–59 years) constituted the majority of injured (73%) and were more likely to fall at workplace, and to fall from higher heights compared to the older adults who sustained more fall at home. Overall in-hospital mortality was 3%. Outcomes including longer hospital length of stay and mortality were generally correlated with the height of fall except for the fall at home. CONCLUSION: Fall-related injuries remain as significant burden even in a level 1 trauma center. Variations in the pattern of injuries by age, gender and height of fall provide important information for targeted preventive measures. BioMed Central 2020-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7388431/ /pubmed/32727594 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09268-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 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 in a credit line to the data.
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Mekkodathil, Ahammed
El-Menyar, Ayman
Kanbar, Ahad
Hakim, Suhail
Ahmed, Khalid
Siddiqui, Tariq
Al-Thani, Hassan
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries: a retrospective study
title Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries: a retrospective study
title_full Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries: a retrospective study
title_fullStr Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries: a retrospective study
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries: a retrospective study
title_short Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries: a retrospective study
title_sort epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries: a retrospective study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7388431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32727594
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09268-2
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