Comparison of data population-based and from hospital-based injuries / 中华流行病学杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To compare data from an epidemiological survey on injuries with a survey conducted in hospitals on injuries in the same areas and to find out the differences and shortcomings of hospital data in describing the feature of injuries in an area.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Comparing the causes and age distributions of injuries from the two surveys.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The first 4 leading causes of injuries from the population-based survey were mechanical injuries, falls, burns/scalds and traffic accidents while the first 4 leading causes of hospital-based survey were traffic accidents, assault, mechanical injuries and burns/scalds. The differences of the age distributions of these leading causes between the two surveys were significant except mechanical injuries.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Differences were noticed between population-based survey and hospital-based survey. It should be cautions when using hospital data to describe the features of injuries in a certain area.</p>