Citation

Horna R, Alvarez Granda JL, Lozano MJ, Torcida I, Zubieta JC, García Fuentes M. An. Esp. Pediatr. 1989; 31(3): 302-306.

Vernacular Title

Estudio de la morbilidad por accidentes en la poblacion infantil de Cantabria.

Affiliation

Servicio de Medicina Preventiva, Hospital Nacional Marqués de Valdecilla, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Ediciones Doyma)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2631615

Abstract

This work presents the morbidity by accident which required medical assistance, covering the population from zero-to-nineteen years of the Autonomic Community of Cantabria between the first of October 1986 and the 30th of September 1987. For this study 1610 families chosen at random depending on the zone's population, were interviewed. The number of registered accidents was of 527 and the number of injured children of 453, which represents the 28.14% of the total of children interviewed. A 42.66% required out-patient medical assistance, a 53.82% required medical assistance at the hospital's emergency units and a 3.5% had to enter hospital. A 5.1% of the accidents were considered very serious, no deaths occurred. The circumstances that defined the accidents were analyzed and the facts that conditioned them, subject, agent and mean.

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