NCT05538390

Assessment of Pattern of Abdominal Injury

Assesment of Pattern of Abdominal Injury Over a Two Year Period at St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College and AaBET Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 165 (actual)
• Sponsor: St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This hospital-based cross-sectional study was done at SPHMMC and AaBET hospitals from January 2018 to December 2019.The study aimed to assess the pattern of abdominal injury at St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) and Addis Ababa Burn, Emergency and Trauma (AaBET) hospital, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.Data was collected from the trauma registry and patient files using a pretested structured questionnaire filled out by two trained data collectors.The collected data was entered and analyzed using statistical software SPSS version 25.0.

Detailed description

Data was collected from the trauma registry and patient files using a pretested structured questionnaire filled out by two trained data collectors. The questionnaire was categorized into socio-demographics (age, sex, residency, and address), clinical profile (triage, v/s, type of injury, associated injury), management, and outcome (management, complication, disposition, and mortality). Completeness of data was checked by the principal investigator.

Conditions

• Abdominal Trauma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	—

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-01
• Primary completion: 2020-05-30
• Completion: 2020-06-10
• First posted: 2022-09-13
• Last updated: 2022-09-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ethiopia