TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - Domestic unintentional injuries presenting to the accident and emergency departments in the Wellington region
JO  - New Zealand medical journal
A1  - Bandaranayake, D.
A1  - Salmond, C.
A1  - Kljakovic, M.
A1  - Borman, B.
SP  - 528
EP  - 531
VL  - 103
IS  - 901
N2  - A prospective descriptive study of domestic unintentional injuries attending accident and emergency (A & E) departments in the Wellington region is presented. In a three month period there were 2207 such attendances. There was no difference in the proportion of males and females seen. A disproportionate number of the very young (under five years of age) and the elderly (65 years and over) attended A & E departments for these injuries. Approximately one-quarter of the attendances were for cuts or lacerations (26.6%) and one-fifth were for fractures (18.0%). Crude estimates of distance indicate that, on average, people travel greater distances for fractures than for other injuries. General practitioners referred one-tenth (10.6%) of all the attendances. Outcomes from the A & E attendances were: 70.4% were discharged, 7.7% were admitted to hospital, 14.6% were referred to outpatient clinics, and 7.2% were referred back to their general practitioners. There were no deaths in A & E departments.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0028-8446
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -