@article{ref1,
title="Epidemiology of hospitalized traumatic pelvic fractures and their combined injuries in Taiwan: 2000-2011 national health insurance data surveillance",
journal="BioMed research international",
year="2014",
author="Yang, Nan-Ping and Chan, Chien-Lung and Chu, Dachen and Lin, Yu-Zhen and Lin, Kai-Biao and Yu, Ching-Shao and Yu, I-Liang and Chang, Nien-Tzu and Lee, Yi-Hui",
volume="2014",
number="",
pages="e878601-e878601",
abstract="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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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%). <br><br>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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2314-6133",
doi="10.1155/2014/878601",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/878601"
}