title: Incidence and patterns of registered injuries among children in Ongkharak District, Nakhon Nayok, Thailand.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the pattern of injury incidence and to illustrate the magnitude and the burden of childhood injury in an agricultural area in Thailand.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective descriptive study of new registered injury cases was conducted in a Ongkharak District, Nakhon Nayok Province, Thailand, including the population of 12,017 aged of 0-14 years. Data were collected for one year period from September 2006-August 2007 from medical records from 6 hospitals in the province and 14 health centers in the district, including death certificates from local authority vital registration were reviewed over the period of one year. The ICD-10 was used for injury classification. Proportions with 95% confidence intervals were estimated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 1,098 records of injuries during one year of the study. Annual incidence rate of injury was found to be 90.5 per 1,000 population (95% CI: 85.4-95.7) with the mortality rate of 24.96 per 100,000 population (95% CI: -3.28-53.2). About 5% of the injured children need hospital admission and 0.3% of injures are fatal. The injuries are common in the age groups of 4-12 years. Injuries in boys are 1.5 time more common than those in girls. Common causes of injuries are non-animate and animate forces, falls and transportations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings from this community-wide study could be a baseline information for comparisons within this community and other agriculture-based area and also for developing preventive measures to reduce injury and the burden.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Srinakharinwirot University, Nakhon Nayok, Thailand. suthee@swu.ac.th
authors.forename: Suthee
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rattanamongkolgul
authors.forename: Adisak
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Plitponkarnpim
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D012042:Registries; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013785:Thailand / Q000453:epidemiology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality