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Epidemiology of Fatal Injuries among Patients Admitted at Sina Hospital, the National Trauma Registry of Iran, 2016-2019

  • Melika Khaleghi-Nekou
  • , Ali Moradi
  • , Mohammadreza Zafarghandi
  • , Ahmad Fayaz-Bakhsh
  • , Mina Saeednejad
  • , Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar
  • , Mahdi Sharif-Alhoseini
  • , Esmaeil Fakharian
  • , Moein Khormali
  • , Mahdi Mohammadzadeh
  • , Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani
  • , Hamid Pahlavanhosseini
  • , Habibollah Pirnejad
  • , Aria Rahmani
  • , Saeid Soltani
  • , Khatereh Naghdi
  • , Somayeh Bahrami
  • , Melika Ozlaty
  • , Payman Salamati*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • National Institute of Health Research (Tehran)
  • Occupational Health & Safety Reseaarch Center
  • Trauma Research Center
  • Tabriz University of Medical Science
  • Urmia University of Medical Sciences

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Abstract

Introduction: Injuries cause high rates of mortality and harm to millions of people annually.Objective: The aims of this study were to assess some characteristics of hospitalized trauma patients and determine the variables which were associated with increased rates of mortality.Methods: Data were extracted from the National Trauma Registry of Iran (NTRI) data bank. Among all trauma patients admitted to Sina Hospital, those who had one of the following were registered in the NTRI: hospitalization for more than 24 hours, death less than 24 hours in the hospital, and transferring from the intensive care unit (ICU) of another hospital. Recorded data relating to the interval between 24 July 2016 and 10 October 2019 were analyzed.Results: A total number of 3430 patients were studied, of whom 78 (0.02%) did not survive. The mean age of survivors was 38.4 (+/- 18.5) and it was 58.1 (+/- 23.7) for non-survivors (p
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages9
JournalFrontiers in Emergency Medicine
Volume5
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2021
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

FUNDING:
This study was funded by Sina Trauma and Surgery
Research center under the project of National
Trauma Registry of Iran [NTRI]

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