Medicolegal Cases in An Urban City in South Southern Nigeria; A Hospital-Based Study

Jude, Dr. Uchendu Obiorah; Charles, Nwafor Chukwuemeka

doi:10.9790/0853-1606130105

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“…The average age of the victims was 34.53 years and the median age was 32 years. Our findings were similar to the studies reported by references [1], [3]- [9], [11], [13], [15], [16], [18]- [25], and [27]- [38].…”

Section: Agesupporting

confidence: 92%

“…However, references [3]- [8], [11]- [13], [15]- [17], [18], [20], [22]- [24], [28], [30], [32]- [37] have reported that Road Traffic Accidents were major causes of medico-legal cases presented to the hospitals. Reference [38] reported that poisoning was the major cause of admission to the casualty.…”

Section: Alleged History Of the Causes Of Mlcsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Reference [13] reported that 0.6% of victims of MLCs were referred to other higher hospitals for treatment and LA.M.A cases were 1.63%. Reference [14] reported that Reference [20] reported that 80.69% of MLCs were discharged, deaths were 9.68% whereas 4.45% of MLCs were referred to other hospitals for further management.…”

Section: Outcome In the Mlcsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Profile of Medico-Legal Cases in Accident & Emergency Department of SSKH, LHMC, New Delhi During Pre-Covid-19 and Covid-19 Periods

Kumar,

Jena,

Singh

et al. 2023

EJMED

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Medico-legal cases presented to the Accident & Emergency department vary from hospital to hospital. Profiling these cases from time to time provides an insight into the workload of medico-legal cases as well as what is going on in and around the locality. The present study was conducted at LHMC, New Delhi from January 2021 to June 2022 from the available records of MLCs from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2021. Out of a total of 5702 MLCs, males were 85.77%. Victims of the age group 21–30 years formed the majority (36.30%) of the cases followed by age groups 31–40 years (25.44%). The time of incidence was between 6 p.m. and 11.59 p.m. in the majority (42.00%) cases. The time of reporting was between 6 p.m. and 11.59 p.m. in the majority (40.05%) of cases. A majority (56.92%) of the victims had reported within 1 hour of the incident. The cause was blunt force trauma in more than half (51.05%) cases, followed by RTA (17.93%) and poisoning (17.84%). In more than half (56.51%) cases, the manner was homicidal, followed by accidental including RTA (23.95%) and suicidal (19.35%). The surgery department was found involved in more than 2/3 (69.15%) cases, followed by Orthopaedics (31.85%), Medicine (20.199%) and ENT (19.52%). In 85.50% of cases, the victims were discharged within 24 hours. Hospital death in MLCs was 4.15% whereas 1.87% of victims were referred to other hospitals for further management.

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