title: Injuries to the hand and wrist. A study of 50,272 injuries.
abstract: This study reports the causes, characteristics and treatment of injuries to the hand and wrist presented to five accident and emergency departments in a 2-year survey of 13% of the Danish population. The rate of injury to the hand or wrist was 28.6% of all injuries, or 3.7 per 100,000 inhabitants per year. 34% of the accidents were domestic, 35% were leisure accidents, 26% were occupational and 5% were traffic accidents. Only 2% of the patients were admitted to hospital for further treatment or observation and 13% were referred to a hospital as outpatients. The most frequent causes for admission were fractures (42%), tendon lesions (29%) and wounds (12%).
authors.affiliation: Danish European Home and Leisure Accident Surveillance System (EHLASS) Project, National Board of Health and National Consumer Agency, Copenhagen.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Angermann
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lohmann
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000328:Adult; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006230:Hand Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010045:Outpatients; D010343:Patient Admission; D014954:Wrist Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*