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- Title
Profile of Medico-legal Cases in a Tertiary Care Centre at Greater Noida.
- Authors
Kishore, Kaushal; Gupta, Barakha; Bansal, Pankaj; Singh, Ranjana; Rastogi, Pooja
- Abstract
Casualty department of every hospital play a main role in management of not only medical emergencies but also of the medico-legal cases. In casualty the first attending doctor was usually a simple medical graduate which later on seeks expert opinion from various other departments. Profiling of Medico-legal cases is very much needed as the medico-legal cases differ from region to region depending upon geographic orientation, socioeconomic status, available heath care facility etc. This retrospective Study was carried out on total 591 medico-legal cases attending the casualty of Sharda hospital, a tertiary care hospital of Greater Noida UP from 1st Sep. 2014 to 31st Aug. 2015. The objectives of this study were to study demographic variables and pattern of medico-legal cases. Males (76.51%) outnumbered the females and maximum cases were of 21-30 years (32.10%) age group. The majority of cases were from urban area (54%), April month showed maximum cases (11.3%) Road traffic accident was the commonest cause of injuries (48.7.50%). Blunt injuries constituted main fraction (82.6%) and fracture was present in (27.91%) of cases. Majority of cases showed injuries on more than one region of body (39.8%) and (53.46%) cases were admitted in different specialties. This study shows the workload of the medico-legal cases of a tertiary care hospital and urges availability of medico-legal experts and regular training of medical officers. This also provides valuable information to the policy makers to take effective measures.
- Subjects
NOIDA (India); TERTIARY care; FORENSIC sciences; RETROSPECTIVE studies; TRAFFIC accidents; SOCIAL status; BLUNT trauma
- Publication
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 2017, Vol 11, Issue 1, p167
- ISSN
0973-9122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5958/0973-9130.2017.00035.4