Ten years of trauma in the 'top end' of the Northern Territory, Australia: a retrospective analysis
| Autor: | Bronte L. Martin, Kathleen M. McDermott, Linda Ward, Christopher J. Gowing |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Adolescent Poison control Emergency Nursing Suicide prevention History 21st Century Occupational safety and health Young Adult Injury Severity Score Trauma Centers Internal medicine Injury prevention medicine Northern Territory Humans Registries Young adult Child Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over business.industry Infant Newborn Infant Retrospective cohort study Middle Aged Surgery Traumatic injury Child Preschool Wounds and Injuries Female business |
| Zdroj: | International emergency nursing. 23(1) |
| ISSN: | 1878-013X |
| Popis: | Aim To examine characteristics of traumatic injury in adults and children at the Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) over a 10 year period. Method A retrospective review of the RDH Trauma Registry data from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2012, with analysis of patient demographics, mechanism of injury, Injury Severity Score (ISS), and outcome. Participants Two thousand seven hundred twenty-five patients with an ISS greater than or equal to 9 and met all other study inclusion criteria. Results Motor vehicle crashes, assaults and falls consistently remained the three most common mechanisms of injury throughout the 10 year period. Indigenous admissions showed a significant downward trend ( p = 0.009). Upward trends were noted in presentations from patients aged greater than 44 ( p = 0.002), all-terrain vehicle accidents ( p 0.001), and hangings ( p = 0.003). No other trends were noted to significant at a p 0.05 level. Admitted Indigenous patients were significantly more likely to be present due to assault ( p 0.001) and female patients were more likely to present due to assault, falls and motor vehicle crashes ( p 0.01) than their counterparts. Conclusion Presentations for traumatic injury to Royal Darwin Hospital have remained in the most part, consistently stable for the period of 2003–2012. Though there were some increases/decreases in regard to specific demographics and mechanisms, few were found to be statistically significant at a p |
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