[Characteristics of head injuries-data from the Jiangsu Injury Surveillance System, 2006-2014]

To understand the epidemiological characteristics of head injuries through data gathered from the Jiangsu Injury Surveillance System.

Data on head injury that occurred during 2006-2014 were collected from the Jiangsu injury surveillance system and analyzed by SPSS 19.0 software.

From 2006 to 2014, data on 133 172 cases of head injuries were collected which accounting for 26.2% (133 172/509 175) of all the injury cases. Among them, males were 2.18 times higher than the females. The top five leading causes of head injuries were falls 24.6% (32 796/133 172), blunt force injuries 24.4% (32 446/133 172), motor car accident injuries 20.3% (26 993/133 172), knife or sharp force injuries 10.7% (14 183/133 172) and non-motor car accident injuries 6.7% (8 919/133 172). Main locations that head injuries occured would involve roads/streets 32.5% (43 262/133 172), working places 22.2% (29 526/133 172), at home 20.5% (27 925/133 172) and public residences 10.8% (14 367/133 172). Recreation activates 37.9% (50 479/133 172), driving 26.1% (34 749/133 172), paid jobs 24.8% (33 034/133 172) were the three major activities related to head injuries. Severity of injuries would depend on the situations on site. As for minor injuries, bruise accounted for 63.5% (67 929/106 912). Brain trauma 21.5% (5 119/23 803) and fracture 14.9% (3 554/23 803) appeared an increasing trend. Severe injuries would include brain trauma 74.6% (1 833/2 457). 78.8% (104 940/133 172) of the patients with head injuries would go home after receiving treatment the hospital, with fetality only as 0.1% (134/133 172).

Data from the Jiangsu surveillance program showed that Head injury appeared the highest proportion among all the body injuries that called for special attention.