Emergency Care Accidents in Maceió, Brazil, 2009 Sample

399 randomly sampled accident records from a total of 143,262 occurrences at a hospital emergency service in Maceió, Brazil, in 2009. Gisetti Corina Gomes Brandão authored this exploratory study using secondary data from the Ministry of Health. The sample reveals that 76.19% of victims were men, with the highest incidence of accidents occurring in the afternoon and evening.

Use Cases

• Analyze demographic risk factors for accidents based on victim age and sex variables.
• Study temporal patterns of accident occurrences based on the time of day data.
• Profile accident types involving specific road users like drivers and pedestrians.
• Assess the representativeness of a random sample for a larger population of emergency care incidents.

Strengths

• Sample size of 399 records is explicitly stated and was calculated with a 5% sampling error and 95% confidence interval.
• Study provides specific demographic statistics, such as 76.19% male victims and 26.50% in the 20-29 age group.
• Data collection was based on a standardized form from the Brazilian Ministry of Health's Accidents and Violence Secretariat.

Limitations

• Row count for the full dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single city and year, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Gisetti Corina Gomes Brandão

Collection Method

Data were collected from secondary sources using a form based on the Brazilian Ministry of Health's Accidents and Violence Secretariat records.

Time Range

2009

Geography

Maceió city, Alagoas, Brazil