A prospective non-fatal injuries assessment: A multivariate analysis in medical-legal examinations

To prospectively determine injury recovery time in the medical-legal examinations of non-fatal injuries and their associated factors, carried out by the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Colombia to create a multivariate analysis. A prospective medical-legal assessment of...

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Published in:Journal of forensic and legal medicine 2023-07, Vol.97, p.102543-102543, Article 102543
Main Authors: Támara-Patiño, Liliana Marcela, Fontanilla-Duque, German Alfonso, Sánchez- Cardozo, Oscar Armando, Ibañez-Pinilla, Milciades, Duran-Torres, Felipe, Rodríguez-Leguizamón, Giovanni, Niño-Sandoval, Tania Camila
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Language:English
Subjects:
Accidents, Traffic
Colombia
Female
Forensic Medicine
Humans
Male
Multivariate Analysis
Wound healing
Wounds and injuries
Wounds and Injuries - epidemiology
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Summary:To prospectively determine injury recovery time in the medical-legal examinations of non-fatal injuries and their associated factors, carried out by the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Colombia to create a multivariate analysis. A prospective medical-legal assessment of non-fatal injuries was carried out on 281 individuals with complete follow-up, in which the observational unit of analysis was the most serious injury. Variables, such as sex, circumstances of the injury, the mechanism that caused the injury, medical certificate of incapacity to work, among others were related to the injury recovery time, measured in days. The Kruskal Wallis (K–W) ANOVA and a multivariate analysis using the ordinal regression model were applied. In the multivariate analysis, the factors most associated with longer recovery time were the extent of joint damage (CR95%:1.47–5.94,p = 0.0001) and bone damage (CR95%:2.92–7.42,p 
ISSN:1752-928X
1878-7487
DOI:10.1016/j.jflm.2023.102543