Hakan HAKKOYMAZ, Duran TOPAK, Halit BAYKAN, Ali İhsan KILCI, Özlem GÜLER, Ramazan AZİM

Evaluation and cost analysis of the patients, who applied to the emergency service with an open injury of hand and / or wrist

Aim: This study was planned to determine the demographic, etiological and clinical characteristics and the treatment costs of thepatients with open isolated hand and/or wrist injuries.Material and Methods: In this study, the data of 127 patients who were admitted to the adult emergency department due to handand / or wrist trauma between 01.01.2018 and 06.30.2018 were examined. Data on demographic data, shape and clinic of injurywere summarized as number and percentage. Shapiro Wilk test was used to determine whether the numerical measurements werecompatible with the normal distribution and Kruskal Wallis test was used for comparison of cost between groups.Results: Of the patients, 81.1% were male and the most common injury was seen in the age group of 19-64 and workers. Fingers werethe most frequently injured areas and the most common injured finger was the index finger. The first two reasons in the aetiologywere home and occupational accidents. Penetrating/cutting was the most common injury mechanism. There was no significantdifference between occupation groups in terms of cost (p>0.05) but there was a significant difference between diverse treatmentmethods (p

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