Association between type of fixation and alength of stay amongst maxillofacial fracture patients: a retrospective charts review Authors Humayun Kaleem Siddiqui Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Anum Aijaz Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Farhan Raza Khan Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan DOI: https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.3177 Abstract We aimed to explore the predictors of hospital length of stay for patients admitted and with maxillofacial injuries. Patients presenting with maxillofacial trauma were included. Poly-trauma involving neurosurgery and/ or needing orthopedics intervention were excluded. Logistic regression was applied to explore the predictors associated with the hospital stay of > 4 days. There were 241 patients with mean age 29.35 ± 12.5 years (age range 12-80 years). Mandibular fracture was the commonest observation 121(50.2%), followed by maxillary 48(19.9%), and zygomatic bone fracture 9 (3.7%). Road traffic accident 196 (81.3%) appears to be the most common etiology of maxillofacial injuries in the studied sample. The mean length of hospital stay among bone plating patients was 5.96 ±6.8 days compared to 4.15±6.2 days for ones treated without bone plating; p-value 0.05. It was concluded that longer length of stay is required in patients with more complex management including bone plates. Keywords: Maxillofacial injury; road traffic accident; bone plating; length of stay. Downloads Full Text Article Published 2022-09-15 How to Cite Siddiqui, H. K., Aijaz, A. ., & Khan, F. R. . (2022). Association between type of fixation and alength of stay amongst maxillofacial fracture patients: a retrospective charts review. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 72(10), 2077–2079. https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.3177 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 72 No. 10 (2022): OCTOBER Section ORIGINAL ARTICLE