TY - JOUR
A2 - Schober, Patrick
AU - Yang, Nan-Ping
AU - Chan, Chien-Lung
AU - Chu, Dachen
AU - Lin, Yu-Zhen
AU - Lin, Kai-Biao
AU - Yu, Ching-Shao
AU - Yu, I-Liang
AU - Chang, Nien-Tzu
AU - Lee, Yi-Hui
PY - 2014
DA - 2014/04/01
TI - Epidemiology of Hospitalized Traumatic Pelvic Fractures and Their Combined Injuries in Taiwan: 2000–2011 National Health Insurance Data Surveillance
SP - 878601
VL - 2014
AB - Background. From the viewpoint of prehospital emergency medicine, a greater proportion of pelvic fractures not of a life-threatening status but combined with other injuries need more comprehensive recognition. Methods. A 12-year nationwide health database of inpatients was reviewed. All cases diagnosed as pelvic fractures were enrolled. The associated injuries classified into 20 categories were further analyzed. Results. During 2000–2011, the hospitalized incidence of pelvic fractures in Taiwan ranged from 17.17 to 19.42 per 100,000, and an increasing trend with age was observed. The mean case-fatality rate was 1.6% for females and 2.1% for males; male patients with pelvic fractures had a significantly higher risk of death than female patients after adjusting for other covariates. 74.2% of these cases were combined with other injuries. The most common associated injuries in an identified body region were other orthopedic fractures of the lower limbs (21.50%), spine/trunk (20.97%), or upper limbs (18.18%), followed by significant head injuries (17.59%), intra-abdominal injuries (11.00%), and thoracic injuries (7.20%). Conclusion. The incidence of hospitalized pelvic fractures in Taiwan was low and the case-fatality rate was lower than those of other countries. Concurrently, coexistence of major combined injuries with pelvic fractures was easily treated at medical centers.
SN - 2314-6133
UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/878601
DO - 10.1155/2014/878601
JF - BioMed Research International
PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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