| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北醫學大學 === 傷害防治學研究所 === 96 === Traumatic Injuries has been a very important issues among countries all over
the world. Traumatic Injuries not only causes death, but life-long disabilities.
This was a descriptive epidemiologic study, which collected. hospital discharge
data from traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients in Hualien.
The highly significant related factors of TBI-associated were estimated by
analysing data collected from a database of TBI in Taiwan.
The study collected hospital discharge data from traumatic brain injury patients
in Hualien from1994 to 2007 .A total of 6,712 cases were analyzed. In this study,
the average age was 40.73, and 64.7% was male. The results revealed that the
major causes of TBI were car accident (52.5%) and falling accidents (26.4%);
and most of the TBI were minor injuries (83.5%) and with fair prognosis
(82.4%).
With increasing age, the degree of injuries and prognosis become more severe.
Traffic accidents inflicted the worst injuries and the worst prognosis followed by
falling accidents. Male patients were more often seriously injured than female
patients with worse prognosis.
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