Perspectives of Road Traffic Injuries: An Additional Task in the List of Non-Communicable Diseases from the Tertiary Centre Hospital of North India
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 5
Abstract
Background: The World Health Or-ganisation’s Global Status Report on Road Safety highlighted that more people die in road traffic acci-dents in India than anywhere else in the world, including the more populous China. Objective: To assess the socio-demographic profile, pattern of in-juries incurred by the victims along with some antecedent factors influ-encing these road traffic accidents (RTAs) like alcohol presence, months of occurrence etc Methods: Descriptive Cross-sectional Retrospective Study of 2 consecutive years of 2012 & 2013 was carried out in a tertiary care centre. All the RTA cases in the 2 years recorded in the department case sheets file deposited in the medical records department (MRD) was taken for study. Results: The 55.4% in 2012 and 40.6% in 2013 were young drivers with males exceeded the females. The 4 mass casualties were also oc-curred in the 2013. Conclusion: Most of them were young road users with males pre-dominantly involved in accident bothyears. The accident severity rate in terms of number of deaths per 100 cases was 6.6% in 2012 and 4.1% in 2013. Lacerations was the commonest injury.
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Mehar Bano, Sadhana Awasthi, Anupama Arya, CMS Rawat
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