This was a cross-sectional study being performed
in during a 4.5-year period from January 2009 to
July 2014 in Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences
hospital, a tertiary healthcare centre in eastern India.
The study protocol was approved by institutional
review board (IRB) and medical ethics committee of
Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences. As this was
a retrospective study, no informed written consent
was required for inclusion in the study. We included
all the patients who were referred to our center with
blunt abdominal trauma who were diagnosed to have
hollow viscus injury. We included those patients who
their medical charts had complete data on baseline
characteristics, clinical findings and radiological
work-ups. We also included those patients who
had abdominal work-ups. A patient was defined as
having had an abdominal workup if they had any
one or more of the following tests or procedures
performed: abdominal computed tomographic scan,
diagnostic peritoneal lavage, abdominal ultrasound