Characteristics of unintentional injuries reported to Shanghai hospitalized injury surveillance systemï¼ 2017â2020
Journal Title: Shanghai Journal of Preventive Medicine - Year 2023, Vol 35, Issue 1
Abstract
ObjectiveTo analyze the characteristics of hospitalized unintentional injuries and to provide evidence for formulating injury prevention and control strategies.MethodsDescriptive analysis was conducted on injury information of unintentional injury cases reported from 22 monitoring hospitals during 2017 to 2020 by injury surveillance system. The composition ratio index was used to analyze and explore the distributionï¼populationï¼ time and placeï¼of injuries related to different causes. The disease burden was described by the length of hospital stay and hospitalization cost.ResultsA total of 32 716 hospitalized unintentional injury cases were reported from 22 monitoring hospitals. The male to female ratio was 1.18â¶1. The majority of males were aged 15â64 years and the majority of females were aged over 45 years. The top three causes of injuries were fallsï¼ traffic-related and blunt injury. Injuries occurred more frequently in July and August. 42.81% of the cases occurred at home. Fracture cases accounted for 75.79%. The median length of hospital stay was 10 days and the median cost was 15 431.50 yuan. The share of both falls and non-motor vehicle accidents increased year by year.ConclusionFalls among elderly people and road traffic injuries are the main causes of hospitalized unintentional injuriesï¼ and sharp or blunt instrument injuries are more severe in the male workforce. Considering high direct and indirect economic losses from injuriesï¼ steps should to be taken to improve injury surveillance system and to implement injury prevention and control strategies targeted on key groups and key injuries.
Authors and Affiliations
XU Naiting,PENG Juanjuan,GAO Ning,ZHOU Deding,YU Yan,LIU Jinghong,SHI Yan,
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