Accidents, Traffic, Whiplash Injuries
Conditions
Keywords
traffic accident, traditional Korean medicine, car insurance, whiplash injury
Brief summary
Data of one hospital will be used to find out the patient's satisfaction with the treatment, analyze the factors effecting on the treatment termination. Also, plan to see if there is a correlation between prognosis according to the seriousness of the accident. In addition, investigators want to find out the participants' perception of car insurance and their satisfaction with traditional Korean medicine treatment.
Detailed description
Retrospective data will be extracted using electronic medical records and computerized data of hospitalized patients. Based on this, investigators will conduct research in the form of prospective survey and analyze the causal relationship and factors using the two data. The hospital's medical records will be used to analyze the patient's condition during the hospitalization period and to determine the situation after the end of treatment through questionnaire. The questionnaire will be developed after consultation with experts from musculoskeletal system and related societies, and will be used for the questionnaire.
Interventions
1. Retrospective Data Collection (1) Neck Disability Index (NDI), Oswestry Low Back Disability Index(ODI), euroqol-5 dimension(EQ-5D) scores during hospitalization (2) symptom onset date, symptom onset motive, past history, accident occurrence date, accident treatmen termination agreement date, etc. 2. Question items (consistent with the case record) according to the purpose of the investigation (1) General: Demographic sociological characteristics (gender, age, occupation, income, etc.) (2) Matters concerning the correlation between traffic accident agreements and symptoms
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Age 19 to 65 * A traffic accident injury patient who had been hospitalized at Haeundae Jaseng Korean Medicine Hospital from Jan. 01, 2016 to Dec. 31, 2018.
Exclusion criteria
* People whose traffic accidents are not yet agreed to * Those who have not exceeded 90 days (3 months) since the conclusion of the agreement * Persons unable to communicate
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pain duration after treatment termination | Finish all survey by Nov 2019 | duration will be checked in week |
| Spent treatment fee after agreement with car insurance | Finish all data collection by Nov 2019 | fee will be measured in tens of thousands |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in EuroQol 5-dimensions 5-levels | Finish all data collection by Nov 2019 | EuroQol 5-dimensions 5-levels scores during hospitalization |
| situation of of traffic accident | Finish all survey by Nov 2019 | Whether in car traffic accident or out car traffic accident |
| Numeric rating scale (NRS) score | Finish all survey by Nov 2019 | pain score at the accident time |
| Change in Neck Disability Index (NDI) | Finish all data collection by Nov 2019 | Neck Disability Index (NDI) scores during hospitalization |
| overall condition of patient after treatment termination | Finish all survey by Nov 2019 | After the termination of the treatment, confirm that additional treatment was carried out using private expenses and reconfirm the pain after the termination of the treatment. |
| satisfaction of car insurance | Finish all survey by Nov 2019 | Patients' satisfaction questionnaire (0\ 10 score) 10 is better |
| Satisfaction with Korean medicine treatment for traffic accident injury | Finish all survey by Nov 2019 | Patients' satisfaction questionnaire (0\ 10 score), 10 is better |
| Whiplash-associated disorder (WAD) grade. | Finish all survey by Nov 2019 | seriousness of accidents |
| Change in Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) | Finish all data collection by Nov 2019 | Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) scores during hospitalization |
Countries
South Korea