Table 2. Leading Causes of Injury at Trauma Unit in Assiut University Hospital, Upper Egypt, 2002 - 2009a,b.
| Rank | Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |
| 1 | Falls (45.6) | Falls (47.1) | Falls (50.0) | Falls (52.7) | Falls (51.1) | Falls (49.0) | Falls (50.0) | Falls (49.3) |
| 2 | Inanimate mechanical forces (22.8) | Inanimate mechanical forces (22.9) | Inanimate mechanical forces (20.7) | Inanimate mechanical forces (19.9) | Inanimate mechanical forces (19.3) | Transport accidents (19.8) | Transport accidents (19.8) | Transport accidents (21.5) |
| 3 | Transport accidents (17.1) | Transport accidents (16.6) | Transport accidents (16.1) | Transport accidents (15.83) | Transport accidents (17.8) | Inanimate mechanical forces (18.6) | Inanimate mechanical forces (17.8) | Inanimate mechanical forces (17.1) |
| 4 | Interpersonal violence (6.4) | Interpersonal violence (5.5) | Interpersonal violence (6.3) | Interpersonal violence (6.02) | Interpersonal violence (6.6) | Interpersonal violence (6.6) | Interpersonal violence (6.54) | Interpersonal violence (6.4) |
| 5 | Burn (4.3) | Burn (4.6) | Burn (3.8) | Burn (2.6) | Burn (2.4) | Burn (2.9) | Burn (3.0) | Burn (3.0) |
| 6 | Gun-shot (1.5) | Gun-shot (1.28) | Unspecified (1.2) | Unspecified (1.2) | Animate mechanical forces (1.11) | Unspecified (1.2) | Gun-shot (1.1) | Gun-shot (1.1) |
| 7 | Unspecified (1.3) | Unspecified (1.2) | Gun-shot (1.04) | Animate mechanical forces (0.9) | Unspecified (0.9) | Animate mechanical forces (1.0) | Animate mechanical forces (0.94) | Animate mechanical forces (0.82) |
| 8 | Animate mechanical forces (0.84) | Animate mechanical forces (0.8) | Animate mechanical forces (0.8) | Gun-shot (0.7) | Gun-shot (0.74) | Gunshot (0.87) | Unspecified (0.92) | Unspecified (0.78) |
| 9 | Electric current (0.03) | Self-inflected (0.02) | Electric current (0.03) | Electric current (0.01) | Electric current (0.01) | Self-inflected (0.003) | Self-inflected (0.003) | - |
| 10 | Self-inflected (0.01) | Electric current (0.01) | Self-inflected (0.01) | - | - | - | - | - |
Abbreviation: -, there is no reported cases.
aRanking was performed by the column percent of leading causes of injury.
bRemaining of the 100% in each year is due to unknown causes.