Table 8.

Burden of fall-related injuries in Qatar from previous studies

Study	Study population	Study duration	Total injuries	Fall injuries
El-Faramawy et al. (2012) [14]	Spinal fractures	2007 to 2009 (26 months)	442 spinal injuries	31% Fall from height
Tuma et al. (2013) [15]	WRFI	2007–2008 (12 months)	315 total falls	95% WRFI
El-Matbouly et al. (2013) [16]	Traumatic brain injury	2008–2011 (48 months)	1665 traumatic brain injury	35% Fall from height
Al-Thani et al. (2014) [2]	work-related injuries	2010–2012 (36 months)	1496 work-related injuries	51% Fall from height
Parchani et al. (2014) [17]	TSAH	2008–2012 (55 months)	403 TSAH	35% Fall from height
Mahmood et al. (2014) [3]	Intubated patients in TICU	2009–2010 (24 months)	343 Intubated in TICU	18% Falls
Alyafei et al. (2015) [4]	Pediatric trauma	2011 (12 months)	163	36%
Al-Thani et al. (2015) [18]	traumatic neck injury	2008–2012 (60 months)	51	10%
Arumugam et al. (2015) [19]	Abdominal trauma	2008–2011 (48 months)	1036	25%
El-Menyar et al. (2017) [20]	Pediatric traumatic brain injury	2010–2014 (60 months)	945 traumatic brain injury	22% Falls
Abdelrahman et al. (2018) [21]	fall at home	2008–2011 (36 months)	98 fall at home	2.2 of trauma admissions

Trauma registry was the data source in all these studies

WRFI Work-related fall injuries, TASH Traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage, TICU Trauma intensive care unit