Analysis of epidemiological characteristics of children hospitalized due to unintentional injuries in Guangdong Women and Children Hospital from 2015 to 2020
ZENG Chengli LIU Dandan LI Yanjing DENG Meijun
Department of Medical Records, Guangdong Women and Children Hospital, Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 511442, China
Abstract：Objective To analyze the epidemiological characteristics of unintentional injuries among the aged≤12 years in Guangdong Women and Children Hospital, so as to provide a scientific basis for the development of relevant prevention measures and intervention methods. Methods The children of age from 0 to 12 hospitalized for the first time due to unintentional injuries from January 2015 to December 2020，which were extracted from database of the first page data of inpatient medical records. The distribution characteristics of the injury types, injury part of children in different gender and age groups were analyzed by descriptive statistics. Results The medical records of 1283 hospitalized children with unintentional injuries were collected, ranging in age from 0 to 12 years old. 770 boys accounted for 60%, 513 girls accounted for 40%, with the sex ration of boy to girl was 1.5∶1. The top three causes of the unintentional injuries case were falling (43.7%), foreign body entering through natural orifice (30.5%) and poisoning (10.2%). There were significant difference in injury type between different age groups (χ2=225.721, P＜0.01). The most common injury part of body were head and face (37.3%), natural orifice (30.4%) and upper limb (9.2%), with significant difference in injury part between different age groups (χ2=364.834, P＜0.01). Conclusion The mainly causes of the unintentional injuries case were falling, foreign body entering through natural orifice and poisoning, while the common injury part of body were head and face, natural orifice and upper limb. Parents and relevant departments should strengthen the management of unintentional falling, foreign body entering through natural orifice and poisoning in children, so as to reduce the occurrence of children's unintentional injury.
曾成力； 刘丹丹； 李燕菁； 邓梅君. 广东省妇幼保健院2015—2020年儿童意外伤害住院患者流行病学特征分析[J]. 中国当代医药, 2022, 29(25): 152-155.
ZENG Chengli LIU Dandan LI Yanjing DENG Meijun. Analysis of epidemiological characteristics of children hospitalized due to unintentional injuries in Guangdong Women and Children Hospital from 2015 to 2020. 中国当代医药, 2022, 29(25): 152-155.
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