1Professor and HOD, Department of Forensic Medicine, RIMS, Raichur, Karnataka
2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Navodaya Medical College, Raichur, Karnataka
Online published on 2 January, 2016.
This study conducted on 500 patients who visited the emergency and Casualty of RIMS Hospital, Raichur, Karnataka, India. To study the pattern of cases in the Casualty of hospital and to study the case mix pattern was the main objective of the study.
Medicine and its allied specialties contributed to the maximum number of patients attending the casualty. Maximum number of patients visiting the casualty had small complaints and did not suffer from any life threatening problems, which actually required Care and admission for the purpose of emergency medical care. This results in increase of unnecessary workload for the staff working mainly in the Casualty, deputed there for providing emergency care.
Medico-legal cases, casualty, hospital
