Clinical trial NCT05538390: Assessment of Pattern of Abdominal Injury
Official title: 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
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Abdominal Trauma
Keywords: Abdominal Injury
Road traffic injury
Emergency department
Lead sponsor: St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-09-13
Enrollment: 165
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: all patients who presented to the AaBET and SPHMMC Hospital emergency department with a clinical diagnosis of abdominal trauma during the study period.

Brief 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

- All patients who are diagnosed clinically to have abdominal trauma

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients who died before diagnosis

Primary outcomes:
measure: Pattern of Abdominal Injury
timeFrame: Over 2 years
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Addis Ababa
country: Ethiopia
facility: St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Gondar
name: Kassaye D Altaye
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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