Profile and Pattern of Medico-Legal Cases in aTertiary Care Hospital of North India
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 9
Abstract
Drawing public attention and awareness towards traumatic casualties is important to prevent unnatural deaths, this possibly could reduce incidence of such cases. A one year prospective study from October 1, 2014 to October 31, 2015, to analyze causative agents, manner of cases and their outcome was carried out in the Department of Accident and Emergency, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, SKIMS, Srinagar. This study was conducted to understand the magnitude and pattern of medico-legal cases in this region. The study revealed that road traffic accidents (39.3%) constituted the majority of the medico-legal cases out of total 2250, followed by physical assault and poisoning (35.06% and 15.15% respectively). Male preponderance was quite evident (67.7%). People between the age group of 21 – 30 years (44.5%) were most prone to such casualties. The peak time of the incidences was during evening hours (43.43%) and the maximum cases admitted in the summer (35.4%).
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Mohammed Sarwar Mir
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