TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Looking at trauma and deaths: Diyarbakir city in Turkey
JO  - Injury
A1  - Yagmur, Yusuf
A1  - Kiraz, M.
A1  - Kara, Ismail Hamdi
SP  - 111
EP  - 114
VL  - 30
IS  - 2
N2  - There were 329 trauma related deaths in Diyarbakir in 1997. Of these 226 were male (69%) and 103 were female (31%). The median age was 20 years old (range 1-82 years). Of the deaths, 30.5% were under 10, 51% were under 20 and 67% were under 30 years old. Two hundred and eleven deaths occurred in the hospital while 118 deaths occurred prehospital. Seventy-seven percent of hospital deaths (191) occurred in the first day. The most common cause of death was multiple injuries (151, 46%). Head injuries were the main reason for 128 deaths (46%). The most common mechanism of death was motor vehicle accident (131, 40%). The second was falls from a residential building (117, 33.7%).
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SN  - 0020-1383
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -