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Characteristics of the Traumatic Forensic Cases Admitted To Emergency Department and Errors in the Forensic Report Writing by Aktas, Nurettin; Gulacti, Umut; Lok, Ugur; Aydin, Irfan; Borta, Tayfun; Celik, Murat is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Objective: To identify errors in forensic reports and to describe the characteristics of traumatic medico-legal cases presenting to the emergency department (ed) at a tertiary care hospital. ## Methods: This study is a retrospective cross-sectional study. the study includes cases resulting in a forensic report among all traumatic patients presenting to the ed of adiyaman university training and research hospital, adiyaman, turkey during a 1-year period. we recorded the demographic characteristics of all the cases, time of presentation to the ed, traumatic characteristics of medico-legal cases, forms of suicide attempt, suspected poisonous substance exposure, the result of follow-up and the type of forensic report. ## Results: A total of 4300 traumatic medico-legal cases were included in the study and 72% of these cases were male. traumatic medico-legal cases occurred at the greatest frequency in july (10.1%) and 28.9% of all cases occurred in summer. the most frequent causes of traumatic medico-legal cases in the ed were traffic accidents (43.4%), violent crime (30.5%), and suicide attempt (7.2%). the most common method of attempted suicide was drug intake (86.4%). 12.3% of trau
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- Author
- Aktas, Nurettin; Gulacti, Umut; Lok, Ugur; Aydin, Irfan; Borta, Tayfun; Celik, Murat
- Publisher
- Armenian Green Publishing Co.; Shiraz University of Medical Sciences; CASRP: Center of Advanced Scientific Research and Publications (ISSN 2322-2522)
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)