Assessment of Pattern of Abdominal Injury

Assesment of Pattern of Abdominal Injury Over a Two Year Period at St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College and AaBET Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT05538390

Enrollment

165

Registered

2022-09-13

Start date

2019-09-01

Completion date

2020-06-10

Last updated

2022-09-13

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Conditions

Abdominal Trauma

Keywords

Abdominal Injury, Road traffic injury, Emergency department

Brief summary

This hospital-based cross-sectional study was done at SPHMMC and AaBET hospitals from January 2018 to December 2019.The study aimed to assess the pattern of abdominal injury at St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) and Addis Ababa Burn, Emergency and Trauma (AaBET) hospital, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.Data was collected from the trauma registry and patient files using a pretested structured questionnaire filled out by two trained data collectors.The collected data was entered and analyzed using statistical software SPSS version 25.0.

Detailed description

Data was collected from the trauma registry and patient files using a pretested structured questionnaire filled out by two trained data collectors. The questionnaire was categorized into socio-demographics (age, sex, residency, and address), clinical profile (triage, v/s, type of injury, associated injury), management, and outcome (management, complication, disposition, and mortality). Completeness of data was checked by the principal investigator.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

\- All patients who are diagnosed clinically to have abdominal trauma

Exclusion criteria

* Patients who died before diagnosis

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Pattern of Abdominal Injury	Over 2 years	Frequency was analyzed in respective to socio-demographics (age, sex, residency, address), clinical profile(triage, v/s, type of injury, associated injury), management and outcome (management, complication, disposition and mortality) in patients presented with Abdominal injury in the study period.

Countries

Ethiopia

Outcome results