Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Global childhood unintentional injury surveillance in four cities in developing countries: a pilot study

Adnan A Hyder, David E Sugerman, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, Junaid Razzak, Hesham El-Sayed, Andres Isaza, Fazlur Rahman & Margie Peden

Volume 87, Number 5, May 2009, 345-352

Table 2. Characteristics of childhood injuries: GCUIS data from four cities in Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt and Pakistan, 2007

Characteristics	RTI		Fall		Burn		Poisoning		Drowning		Total
Characteristics	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Most severe injury
Fracture	65	21	195	25	0	0	1	2	1	6	262	19
Sprain	33	11	93	12	0	0	1	2	1	6	128	9
Cut/bite/open wound	78	25	200	25	0	0	1	2	7	39	286	21
Bruise/superficial	42	14	152	19	2	1	0	0	3	17	199	15
Burn	2	1	4	1	191	96	6	13	1	6	204	15
Concussion	80	26	134	17	1	1	0	0	3	17	218	16
Organ system injury	3	1	1	0	1	1	27	57	4	22	36	3
Other/refused/unknown/no answer	5	2	11	1	4	2	11	23	0	0	31	2
Outcome of injury
Left before treatment completed	3	1	4	0	1	0	2	3	0	0	10	1
Referred to another centre	9	3	14	2	2	1	1	2	3	15	29	2
Treated and discharged home	173	55	717	79	41	20	52	79	11	55	994	66
Admitted to ward/burn unit/ICU	100	32	136	15	164	79	10	15	4	20	414	27
Admitted for emergency surgery	20	6	15	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	36	2
Died in ED	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	10	6	0
Other	7	2	20	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	2
Projected effect of injury^a (n = 1552)
No significant disability	119	38	483	53	108	51	53	80	13	65	776	51
Short-term temporary disability (< 6 weeks)	135	43	354	39	51	24	8	12	4	20	552	36
Long-term temporary disability (≥ 6 weeks)	52	17	70	8	35	17	5	8	1	5	163	11
Permanent disability	8	3	5	1	16	8	0	0	2	10	31	2
Total	350		913		210		66		20		1 559

GCUIS, global childhood unintentional injury surveillance; ED, emergency department; ICU, intensive care unit; RTI, road traffic injury.
^a As assessed by the treating physician.