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

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