The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the injury characteristics, severity, and outcome between underweight and normal-weight patients hospitalized for the treatment of all kinds of trauma injury.This study was based on a level I trauma center Taiwan.The detailed data of 640 underweight adult trauma patients with a body mass index (BMI) of <18.5 kg/m and 6497 normal-weight adult ...

Quantifying or, more generally, estimating the severity of the possible consequences of occupational accidents is a decisive step in any occupational risk assessment process. Because of the lack of historic information (accident data collection and recording are incipient and insufficient, particularly in construction) and the lack of practical tools in the construction industry, the estimation...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to investigate the characteristics of occupational accidents and frequency and severity of work related accidents in the construction industry among Iranian insured workers during the years 20072011. METHODS The Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) accident database containing 21,864 cases between the years 2007-2011 was applied in this study. In the ...

OBJECTIVE To assess stress hormone response in traumatised patients studied at the site of injury and on their way to hospital. METHODS The study was prospective. Blood samples were taken from 77 patients immediately after the arrival of the emergency physician at the site of the accident (t1) and shortly before patients' admission to hospital (t2). Plasma concentrations of beta endorphin, co...

Road traffic accidents are among the top leading causes of deaths and injuries of various levels. Ethiopia is experiencing highest rate of such accidents resulting in fatalities and various levels of injuries. Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, takes the lion’s share of the risk having higher number of vehicles and traffic and the cost of these fatalities and injuries has a great impact...

In Europe traffic accidents are now widely recorded in national databases. In view of the massive amounts of accident data, the use of data mining tools is essential to sift truly relevant information, and to extract reliable relationships between injury severity and potential causation factors. We present an innovative data mining approach for in depth investigation of causation in accidents d...

OBJECTIVE To assess the demands made on a regional trauma centre by a district trauma unit. DESIGN Two part study. (1) Prospective analysis of one month's workload. (2) Retrospective analysis of one year's workload by using a computer based records system. Comparison of two sets of results. SETTING Accident unit in Gwynedd Hospital, Bangor. PATIENTS (1) All patients who attended the accid...

Vehicular speed has a two-fold influence on traffic accident risk: It affects both probability of involvement and severity of consequence. In terms of involvement, it was long ago suggested that deviation from the mean travel speed of surrounding traffic carried an increased risk fbr the “offending” vehicle.’ A vehicle traveling significantly faster or slower than surrounding traffic is either ...