IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aph/ajpbhl/1986767773-778_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Incidence and outcome of hospital-treated head injury in Rhode Island

Author

Listed:
  • Fife, D.
  • Faich, G.
  • Hollinshead, W.
  • Boynton, W.

Abstract

Hospital discharge summary data were used to identify and study all 2,870 Rhode Island residents hospitalized in-state with head injuries during 1979 and 1980. The overall hospitalized incidence rate was 152 per 100,000 of population per year with age and sex variations similar to those found in other studies. This is consistent with the observation that fatal injury rates in Rhode Island are only 75 per cent of the United States average. Hospitalized incidence rates of head injury of the census tracts in the lowest decile of median income were twice those for census tracts in the highest decile. Smaller increases were also observed with increasing population density. Length of hospital stay increased with age. Discharge to chronic care facilities plus in-hospital deaths increased 20-fold with increasing age. In each age group, in-hospital deaths and discharge to chronic care facilities were associated with long hospital stays.

Suggested Citation

  • Fife, D. & Faich, G. & Hollinshead, W. & Boynton, W., 1986. "Incidence and outcome of hospital-treated head injury in Rhode Island," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 76(7), pages 773-778.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1986:76:7:773-778_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Nathaniel Bell & Nadine Schuurman, 2010. "GIS and Injury Prevention and Control: History, Challenges, and Opportunities," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 7(3), pages 1-16, March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1986:76:7:773-778_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.apha.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.