OBJECTIVE: To study the trends in the distribution and change of total @entity130 were explored during 1997 - 2001. To provide scientific bases in setting up priorities and improving safety standards. METHODS: To collect and analyze the data about all inpatients of @entity130 attending hospital and hospitalization at 322 hospitals between 1997 and 2001 in Guangdong, China. The main outcome measures included external causes, medical consequences, mortality, length of hospital stay, and costs. RESULTS: Rate of all-injury hospitalization increased yearly, from 1997 to 2001. The ratio of inpatient case-fatality declined over a 5-year period, with the total case-fatality rate of 1.64%. The inpatients were mainly caused by motor vehicle accident, unintentional falls, punctured and cut by machine, hurt by others and homicide. The constituent ratio of @entity204 among @entity1 caused by motor vehicle accident was accounted for 56.13% among the total @entity204 , which occupied the first place. Despite the fact that the mean length of stay declined by 3.58% for the hospitalized @entity1 over a 5 year period, and by 2.20% for the healed @entity1 , costs increased by 3.89% for the hospitalized @entity1 and by 4.71% for the healed @entity1 with an average costs per @entity1 per day increased by 7.33%. CONCLUSION: The all-injury hospitalization rate had a trend of increase from 1997 to 2001, but the ratio of inpatient case-fatality declined over the 5-year period, and the direct medical cost also had a trend of increase.

[Study on the characteristics of incidence and XXXX among inpatients with injury in Guangdong province from 1997 to 2001].

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patient', 'patients'] @entity204 :: ('MESH:D003643', 'Disease') :: ['deaths'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['injuries']
@entity204 :: (MESH:D003643,Disease) :: ['death']
