Pattern and Outcomes of Fall injuries and its associated factors in Emergency Department at Addis Ababa burn, emergency and trauma Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020.
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2020-06
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Addis Abeba University
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Introduction:Globally, falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury deaths,
with 80% occurring in low-and middle-income countries. Falls are a major health
concern in the elderly population. Fall injuries are an important public health concern
and remain a growing health problem globally. Two of the three leading causes of injury
deaths road traffic injuries and falls – are predicted to rise in rank compared to other
causes of death, with falls rising to become the 17th leading cause of death by 2030
unless necessary intervention is given.
Objective: This study was conductedto assess the pattern and outcomes of fall injuries
among patients who had visited AaBET hospital ED from April 6 to May 2020
Methods: Institutional based cross-sectional study design was employed. A systematic
random sampling technique was used to review patient’s registration chart from January
2018 to December 2019. Then after data collection, data was checked and entered into
Epi data 4.6 versions, finally, the cleaned data was exported to SPSS version 25 for
analysis. binarylogistic regression was used for dependent variables with p value< 0.05
considered to be the significant association. Finally based on the findings data was
presented using statements, tables, and figures.
Result:The Most common outcome of falling injury was discharge 80.98% afterward to
that wasLeave againstmedical advice 6.34% and death which accounts 4.53% of the
outcome.Among injured body parts lower extremity accounts around one fourth,
88(26.6%), followed by head injury 68(20.5%), whereas neck injury 1(0.3%) was the
least injured body part. Based on multivariable logistic regression those patients with
comorbidities were 65% more likely to be die than alcohol intoxicated patients, AOR0.34
(95%CI 02-.87). with p value <0.05, whereas patient’s age, marital status, and sex had
no significant association.
Conclusion:The outcomes of fall injury were highly fatal having significant death rate
Comorbidity and alcohol intoxication were the factors resulting in fall injury among the
study participants.
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Pattern; injuries; outcome; fall; Emergency Department