@article{ref1,
title="Epidemiological investigation on Wenchuan earthquake-struck trauma patients admitted to two hospitals of Chongqing",
journal="Chinese journal of traumatology",
year="2010",
author="Jian, Hua-sheng and Lv, ZM and Li, Yin-yan",
volume="13",
number="2",
pages="101-102",
abstract="Objective: To study epidemiological characteristics and influential factors of in-hospital patients struck by the Wenchuan earthquake disaster. Methods: The clinical data of 196 cases were collected from 2 hospitals of Chongqing city, including age, sex, occupation, injury site, dwelling and injury severity score. Results: In this series, 31.63% victims'age was over 60 years, and 54.08% were farmers. Multiple trauma accounted for 35.71%, and lower limb injury for 33.67%. There was no significant difference on injury severity score between city dwellers and rural ones (P larger than 0.05). Conclusion: The earthquake injury is influenced by many factors. More attention should be paid to the treatment at first 5 days after injury and high risk population.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1008-1275",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}