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The burden of hospitalization of road crash victims in a secondary health care facility in Oyo, Nigeria
The study examined the hospitalization burden of road crash (injured) victims in Oyo town. Primary data were collected through questionnaire administration and In-Depth interview. One-hundred crash victims were involved in the survey. Secondary data were sourced from the General hospital records. De...
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| 720 | |a Ipingbemi, O |e author | ||
| 720 | |a Dandy, O. A |e author | ||
| 260 | |c 2011-12 | ||
| 520 | |a The study examined the hospitalization burden of road crash (injured) victims in Oyo town. Primary data were collected through questionnaire administration and In-Depth interview. One-hundred crash victims were involved in the survey. Secondary data were sourced from the General hospital records. Descriptive statistics were used for data analysis. Findings indicated that 65% of road crash victims were males, about 87% of them were less than 50 years old and 85% earned not more than N10,000 per month. The length of stay (LOS) showed that each crash victims spent 39 days on the average in the hospital and incurred a daily expense of N750 throughout the victim stay in the hospital. The consequences included reduced income (18.9%), job loss (8.4%) and abandoned by friends and family members (16.8%) among others. The paper calls for improved pre-hospital trauma care and the establishment of Road Accident Fund in order to ameliorate the burden of road crash victims. | ||
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| 024 | 8 | |a Ibadan Planning Journal 1(2), pp. 127-136 | |
| 024 | 8 | |a ui_art_ipingbemi_burden_2011 | |
| 024 | 8 | |a http://ir.library.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1101 | |
| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a The burden of hospitalization of road crash victims in a secondary health care facility in Oyo, Nigeria |