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Barczykowska Ewa, Slusarz Robert, Lewicka Marta, Lewandowska Barbara, Kurylak Andrzej. Evaluation of paediatric injury hospitalization incidence at Hospital Ward in Grudziadz. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2016;6(4):429-446. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.50582http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/3491 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 755 (23.12.2015).755 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7© The Author (s) 2016;This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, PolandOpen Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercialuse, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.Received: 05.04.2016. Revised 25.04.2016. Accepted: 27.04.2016. Evaluation of paediatric injury hospitalization incidence at Hospital Ward in Grudziadz Ewa Barczykowska1, Robert Slusarz2, Marta Lewicka1,3, Barbara Lewandowska4, Andrzej Kurylak1,3 1Paediatric Nursing Department, L. Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University (UMK) in Torun2Neurological and Neurosurgical Nursing Department, L. Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University (UMK) in Torun3J. Brudzinski Voivodship Paediatric Hospital in Bydgoszcz4Correction Unit No. 2 in Grudziadz Mailing address:Marta Lewicka, Collegium Medicum im. L. Rydygiera w Bydgoszczy, UMK w Toruniu, ul. Techników 3, 85-801 Bydgoszcz, Poland; Phone 52 585 21 93, e-mail: marta_grabinska@hotmail.com AbstractIntroduction. Children's and adolescents' injuries are a serious medical problem, as they lead to substantial medical and socio-economic effects.Aim of the paper. The aim of the conducted research was to analyze incidence and causes of hospitalizing children between birth and 18 years of age on the grounds of injuries.Material and methods. Medical histories of 2 832 children between birth and 18 years of age treated for injuries in 2006-2010 in Wladyslaw Bieganski Regional Specialist Hospital in Grudziadz were analyzed.Results. Correlations between treatment method and subsequent years of research (p<0,05), between children's age group and type of injury, and between type of injury and season of the year and hospitalization time, were shown to be statistically significant. No correlation was found in the studied population between subsequent years of research and injury types or residence of the injured.Conclusions. 1. The most frequent causes for placing children in the hospital were cranioencephalic injuries, injuries to the osteoarticular system, and burns. 2. The children's age determined the type of injury inflicted. Children in the youngest age group were most frequently hospitalized for burns, children in the age of 3-6 years for foreign bodies, and in the group of 7-18 years of age for injuries to the chest and to the osteoarticular system. 3. Boys were more frequently injured in a manner requiring hospital treatment than girls were. 4. A decisive majority of injured children required only conservative treatment and a stay in the hospital for no more than 3 days. 5. A constant tendency of higher occurence of injuries in children during spring and summer, was observed.Keywords: children, injuries, hospitalization, child hospitalizated, trauma.