Traumatic Characteristics of the Forensic Cases Admitted to Emergency Department and Errors in the Forensic Reports

Trauma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Characteristics of the Traumatic Forensic Cases Admitted to Emergency Department and Errors in the Forensic Reports

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03133702
• Other study ID #: ADYU 6
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 26, 2017
• Last updated: April 27, 2017
• Start date: January 1, 2014
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2014

Study information

• Verified date: April 2017
• Source: Adiyaman University Research Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Objectives: to detect the mistakes and deficiencies of the forensic reports which was written and to detect the injury characteristics of the forensic cases applied to emergency service of a tertiary hospital.

Description:

All patients who applied for reasons such as crushing, traffic accidents, firearms and explosive injuries, assault, all kinds of injuries, burns, electric shock, asphyxia, torture, child abuse, falls and other injuries, poisoning and suicide attempt are a forensic case.Traumatic forensic cases are often confronted in emergency departments, Aim to this study is to detect the mistakes and deficiencies of the forensic reports which was written and also aimed to detect the injury characteristics of the forensic cases applied to emergency department which is the most important center in region at a tertiary hospital.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 4300
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2014
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 120 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Traumatic forensic cases which written a forensic report were included in study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• The forensic cases which can not be reached the forensic report and patients' emergency department chart

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Emergencies
• Trauma

Intervention

Other:
• Forensic cases
Forensic cases which were admitted to the Emergency Department

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Adiyaman University Research Hospital	Adiyaman	Central

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Adiyaman University Research Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

References & Publications (1)

Buchanan A, Norko M. The forensic evaluation and report: an agenda for research. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2013;41(3):359-65. Review. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Forensic cases admitted to Emergency department	Forensic cases by data obtained from medical records	one year