The Burden of Hand Injuries at a Tertiary Hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa

Table 3

The table shows time of surgery healing and type of injury.

	Healing		OR	value	C.I
	Nature of injury
	Simple	Complex
Agent
Knives	13	1	0.09	0.010	0.00–0.72
Machine	7	7	1.63	0.390	0.47–5.57
Glass	11	18	2.92	0.010	1.15–7.49
Burns	4	0	0.00	0.090	0.00–2.16
Others	43	29	—	—	—
Place of occurrence
Home	30	7	0.19	<0.001	0.07–0.52
Work	0	27	0.79	0.080	0.87–4.1
RTC	23	15	1.90	0.748	0.47–2.75
Sports	17	1	1.14	0.820	0.08–8.22
Occupation
Business	7	8	1.73	0.320	0.52–5.74
Unskilled	18	12	0.93	0.860	0.37–2.30
Skilled	21	25	2.30	0.020	1.04–5.10
Students	7	4	0.80	0.720	0.18–3.25
Professionals	4	3	1.07	0.930	0.18–5.97

C.I: confidence interval.
Home kitchen knives.
Glass: bottle and window glasses.
This miscellaneous section included agents such as animal and human bites, slammed doors, nail piercing, falls, and panga (machete) cuts.