Journal of Infectious Diseases & Preventive Medicine
Open Access

Abstract

Retrospective Study on the Predictors of Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients at Public Hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Blen Nigussie, Zeleke Argaw, Tigistu Gebreyohannis and Teshome Habte*

Background: Globally, patients with accidental brain injury are a considerable reason for the disability and death rate and very serious health problem among low-income nations including Ethiopia.

Objective: This study aimed to explore predictors of outcomes in traumatic brain injury patients at public hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Methodology: A retrospective cross-sectional quantitative study design was employed from a total of 371 randomly selected patients’ chart with traumatic brain injury who was admitted (hospitalized) to the study hospitals of trauma center from January 01, 2019 to December 31, 2020, and data was gathered from February 25 and April 15, 2021.

Results: From a total of 371 study participants, 260 (70.1%) were males. One-third, 129 (34.8%) of injuries were age group of 25–34-year, one hundred seventy (42.3%) of the patients were from an urban setting. This finding reveals that 36% were unfavorable outcomes of accidental traumatic injured patients were arrived at the health care institutions within four to twenty-four hours and more than twenty-four hours were more likely to have unfavorable outcomes AOR=2.857 [1.150,7.099], and AOR=7.623 [2.594,8.915] respectively.

Conclusion: This study showed that severity of the injury, age, oxygen saturation level, pupillary reactivity, and time of arrival, are associated with patient outcomes of traumatic brain injury and recommended improving time of arrival, oxygen saturation level and information delivery system in the respective health institution.

Published Date: 2021-12-09; Received Date: 2021-11-18