Status of ocular trauma in hospitalized patients in Kashan, 2011: As a sample of industrial city / 中华创伤杂志(英文版)

<p><b>PURPOSE</b>Ocular trauma is the third leading cause of hospitalization in ophthalmology patients, imposing direct and indirect physical and psychological costs on society. This study aims to investigate the status of ocular trauma in hospitalized patients in the industrialized city of Kashan in 2011.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>This cross-sectional descriptive applied study was conducted in 2012 on patients hospitalized for ocular trauma. Data, including age, gender, occupation, education, timing of admission following accident, location of accident, type of injury, damaging instrument, and type of trauma, were collected using a questionnaire designed by a trained nurse, and analyzed using SPSS-16 software by means of means ± standard deviation, frequency, and percentage for descriptive data and t-test, one-way analysis of variance, Chi-square and Fisher exact test for analysis at significance level of p < 0.05.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>In total, 82 patients were hospitalized due to ocular traumas. The majority of patients were male (65 patients, 79.3%). Their mean age was (25.4 ± 21.4) years, with an age range of 20-40 years (30 patients, 36.6%). Hyphema was the most common injury (26 patients, 25.5%), home was the most frequent incident location (32 patients, 39%), and knife or other cutting tools were mostly responsible for injuries (18 patients, 21.9%). Patients were hospitalized for 1e6 days, and the average length of stay in hospital was 2.63 days. Frequency distribution of injuries based on whether or not ruptures differed significantly among different age groups.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The majority of ocular trauma occurred in young males. Knife was the principle culprit for eye injuries, followed by vehicles. To reduce such incidents, it is recommended that people be trained to avoid high-risk behaviors when using knives and to better heed driving rules and regulations.</p>

[Precision and accuracy of death certification data in Kashan Shahid Beheshti hospital]

Mortality data are a cornerstone of epidemiological research and health plan. Unfortunately they dose not completed coincident to international standards; so due to important of issue and had not any research for precision and accuracy of death certification data in this region, this study was done in death certification data in inpatient Kashan Shahid Beheshti hospital. An applied cross-sectional research on death certification data in inpatient Kashan Shahid Beheshti hospital with 4 checklist [face and content validity] included precision and accuracy of general identification data and precision and accuracy of causes of death data was done, after that data were grouped in table and analyzed with descriptive statistics. 301 death certification [60%] and 389 [77.5%] had precision and accuracy in view of general identification and 291 [62.3%] adults and 18 [51.4%] prenatal had precision and 328 [70.3%] adult and 19 [54.3%] prenatal had accuracy. 88 [17.5%] of general identification and 83 [17.8%] adult and 15 [42.9%] prenatal did not have completed, 309 [66.2%] adult and 21 [60%] prenatal had a correct sequence. More education for physicians for produce higher quality data and more emphasis for enough knowledge of illness and study of the medical record carefully, perform autopsy for necessary cases establishment of Medical Legal Department in hospital were recommended