Department of Community Medicine, KIMS, Sreepuram, AP.
A study was carried out in a district hospital to find out the epidemiology of medico-legal cases referred to it. 465 medico-legal cases were analyzed to draw valid conclusions. Age and sex distribution, time of occurrence, time elapsed between and expiry of different types of cases were the parameters studied.
Medico-legal cases, Road Traffic Accidents (RTA), Assault, Burns, Poisoning and Drowning
