TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Types of medico-legal cases reported at the casualty department of Ayub Teaching Hospital Abbottabad
JO  - Journal of Ayub Medical College
A1  - Jadoon, Omair Khan
A1  - Shireen, Fatima
A1  - Seema, Nighat
A1  - Afzal, Ejaz
A1  - Ahmad, Iftikhar
A1  - Irshad, Romana
A1  - Khan, Hamza Sattar
SP  - 51
EP  - 53
VL  - 32
IS  - 1
N2  - BACKGROUND: Medicolegal data is very important for administrators, health officials, philanthropists, social workers, law enforcement agencies. Because it is used for planning and implementation of strategies in order to reduce further incidents. This study is conducted with the aim to determine different types of medicolegal cases and patterns of weapons used.     METHODS: A total of 246 cases were studied from 1st September 2017 to 31st January 2018. All information was collected on a pro forma. Statistical analysis was done by MS Excel.     RESULTS: Out of 246 cases, 219 were male and 27 were female with age ranging from 3 to 72 years. Among total, 162(65.85%) patients were injured due to blunt weapon, 17 (6.91%) cases of firearms, 23 (9.34%) in road traffic accidents, 15 (6.09%) sharp-edged weapons, 7 (2.84%) cases were of sexual violence, 11 (4.47%) were of poisoning.     CONCLUSIONS: Injuries of blunt weapons followed by sharp edge and accidental cases occurred more frequently.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1025-9589
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -