Open AccessClinicoepidemiological profile of trauma patients admitting to the emergency department of a tertiary care hospital in eastern India
Author(s) -
Mantu Jain,
Rakesh Vadakkethil Radhakrishnan,
Chitta Ranjan Mohanty,
Sudarshan Behera,
Arvind Kumar Singh,
Soumya Swaroop Sahoo,
Satyabrata Guru,
Sadananda Barik
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_621_20
Subject(s) - medicine , polytrauma , emergency department , interquartile range , injury severity score , emergency medicine , head injury , injury prevention , poison control , observational study , incidence (geometry) , prospective cohort study , medical emergency , surgery , physics , psychiatry , optics
Trauma is an immediate cause of patients flowing to the emergency department of any hospital. Besides epidemiology, clinical profile and treatment strategy forms an important aspect to reflect the gap in the existing public sector health-care system and the requirement.