期刊名称：Journal Riphah College of Rehabilitaion Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2226-9215
电子版ISSN：2410-888X
出版年度：2016
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：30-34
出版社：International Medical Journal Management and Indexing System
摘要：Background: Incidence studies of SCI play an important role in planning health care policies. This study gives the incidence of SCI in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Objective: To determine the incidence of Traumatic spinal cord injury in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan from 2008 to 2012 Methodology: This study is retrospective descriptive study. The data was collected from three SCI rehabilitation centers of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. SCI cases were collected from the records of the rehab centers which occurred in KPK between 2008 and 2012. All data was entered in SPSS and was analyzed for finding the incidence rate of SCI, male and female ratio, most common cause, and most frequently injured level, age of patients, complete and incomplete injuries and district wise distribution. Results: Total 1,136 SCI patients were included in the study. The mean incidence on the five years was 10.23 per million people per year. Males were 920 patients (81 %) while females were 216 patients (19 %). Most patients (31.4 %) were at age between 20 to 29 years. Falls from height (35.3 %) was the most common cause of SCI which was followed by RTA (21.5 %) and FAI (21.3 %) respectively. Thoracic (58.2 %) was most common level injured. Complete injuries were 903 (79.5 %) and incomplete were 233 (20.5 %). Most patients were from Peshawar District (15.2 %). Conclusion: Incidence of SCI in KPK was 10.23 per million people per year.
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