Objective: To study epidemiological characteristics and influential factors of in-hospital patients struck by the Wenchuan earthquake disaster. Methods: The clinical data of 196 cases were collected from 2 hospital...Objective: To study epidemiological characteristics and influential factors of in-hospital patients struck by the Wenchuan earthquake disaster. Methods: The clinical data of 196 cases were collected from 2 hospitals of Chongqing city, including age, sex, occupation, injury site, dwelling and injury severity score. Results: In this series, 31.63% victims' age was over 60 years, and 54.08% were farmers. Multiple trauma accounted for 35.71%, and lower limb injury for 33.67%. There was no significant difference on injury severity score between city dwellers and rural ones (P〉0.05). Conclusion: The earthquake injury is influenced by many factors. More attention should be paid to the treatment at first 5 days after injury and high risk population.展开更多
文摘Objective: To study epidemiological characteristics and influential factors of in-hospital patients struck by the Wenchuan earthquake disaster. Methods: The clinical data of 196 cases were collected from 2 hospitals of Chongqing city, including age, sex, occupation, injury site, dwelling and injury severity score. Results: In this series, 31.63% victims' age was over 60 years, and 54.08% were farmers. Multiple trauma accounted for 35.71%, and lower limb injury for 33.67%. There was no significant difference on injury severity score between city dwellers and rural ones (P〉0.05). Conclusion: The earthquake injury is influenced by many factors. More attention should be paid to the treatment at first 5 days after injury and high risk population.