title: [Injuries treated in primary care in the Community of Madrid: analyses of electronic medical records].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the incidence of injuries treated in primary care by type of injury, age groups, and sex in the publicly-funded health system of the region of Madrid in Spain.
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive cross sectional study was performed of injury episodes registered in the primary care electronic medical records of the health system of Madrid in 2011. We calculated the global incidence of injuries, injury-specific rates for fractures, sprains, wounds, burns, foreign body injuries, poisoning and bruises, and their rate ratios with 95% confidence intervals, all of which were stratified by sex and age groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In 2011 there were 707,800 injury episodes (3.5% of all episodes treated in primary care). Most of the injuries occurred in women (54.0%) and in persons older than 34 years (58.0%). The most common injuries were wounds in men (35.3%) and bruises in women (30.6%). Overall, women had higher rates of injuries among the elderly and men had more injuries in the group younger than 15 years. By type of injury, the highest rates of fractures, burns and bruises were observed in the older population, foreign body injuries and wounds in children, sprains in youth, and poisonings in extreme ages.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The special vulnerability of boys younger than 5 years and elderly women suggests that intervention strategies should be targeted to the specific needs of these groups.
authors.affiliation: Subdirección de Promoción de la Salud y Prevención, Dirección General de Atención Primaria, Consejería de Sanidad, Comunidad de Madrid, España. Electronic address: anaclarazoni@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ana Clara
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Zoni
authors.affiliation: Subdirección de Promoción de la Salud y Prevención, Dirección General de Atención Primaria, Consejería de Sanidad, Comunidad de Madrid, España.
authors.forename: María Felicitas
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Domínguez-Berjón
authors.affiliation: Subdirección de Promoción de la Salud y Prevención, Dirección General de Atención Primaria, Consejería de Sanidad, Comunidad de Madrid, España.
authors.forename: María Dolores
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Esteban-Vasallo
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Salud Pública e Historia de la Ciencia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España. CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP).
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Regidor
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011320:Primary Health Care; D013030:Spain; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Accidentes; Accidents; Atención primaria; Health information technology; Injuries; Lesiones; Primary care; Tecnologías de la información en salud