Analysis of data from emergency-room-based injury surveillance of children aged 0～14 in Zhejiang Province / 中华急诊医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the characteristic and pattern of children injury of Zhejiang Province,and provides scientific evidence for the prevention and control strategy of children injury. MethodChildren diagnosed as injury at emergency department in sentry hospitals (Tnere are 5 monitoring sites for injury surveillance in Zhejiang in 2005 Jinhua, Shengsi, Tongxiang, Yinzhou dislrict of Ningbo, Hailing; each monitoring site has 3 sentry hospitals one county level hospital, one town center hospital and one town level hospital) from January to December,2005 were investigated by trained doctors or nurses in emerncy department. The investigation included basic information, when injury happened, where injury happened and type of injury. Children were investigated when they were conscious, and their parents or accompanies could answer if they were not able to. The contents of investigation were kept private. The distribution of variables which included sex, age, when injury happened, where injury happened, why injury happened and severity level were described mainly with proportion and means, and chisquare test was used to analyze the proportion difference. RemitsA total of 1 794 injury cases were recorded in 2005 among which 67.56% were male and 32.44% were female. The majority were native people and the average age was 7.33±3.84 years old. The injury occurred mostly at home and was of high frequent occurrence from April to November. The most common causes of injury were tumble (47.94%).traffic accident (17.17%) and blunt injury(10.26%). The injury happened mostly during spare time(67.66%), and then school aetivities(11.25%)ant]sports activities(9.96%). Totally 90.33% of the injured children went home after been treated, 1.40% stayed for obsrvafion, 7.04% were in hospital, 0.56% were transferred to other hospitals, 0.22% died and 0.45% unknown. The slight superficial injury and moderate injury were the most common injuries. The most common three types of injury were haemaloma and stasis injury(31.29%), superficial abrased wound(23.69%) and bone fracture(8.67%). Among the injury, 39.47% were head injury, 25.80% were upper limb, 28.55% were lower limb, 4.81% were trunkand 1.38% wereothers. Conclusions The most common three types of injury in Zhejiang province were haemawma and stasis injury, superficial abrased wound and bone fracture. The main reasons of injury were falling injury,traffic accident injury and blunt injury. The injury happened mostly during spare time, and scbool activities and sports activities. Thus, safety education and safety protection should be strengthened to reduce children injuries.