Epidemiological investigation on Wenchuan earthquake-struck trauma patients admitted to two hospitals of Chongqing.
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).


CONCLUSIONS
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.
Jian
Hua-sheng
HS
Emergency Department, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China. reicu@163.com
Lü
Zu-ming
ZM
Li
Yin-yan
YY
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004190:Disasters / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055866:Earthquakes / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*