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

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

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.

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.

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