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Title
Definition of hospital discharge, serious injury and death from traffic injuries
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Date issued
2014-05
Citation
Perez K, Segui-Gomez M, Arrufat V, Barberia E, Cabeza Irigoyen E, Cirera E, et al. Definition of hospital discharge, serious injury and death from traffic injuries. Gac Sanit. 2014 May;28(3):242-5. Epub 2013 Dec 21.
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Español
Document type
research article
Abstract
Road traffic injury surveillance involves methodological difficulties due, among other reasons, to the lack of consensus criteria for case definition. Police records have usually been the main source of information for monitoring traffic injuries, while health system data has hardly been used. Police records usually include comprehensive information on the characteristics of the crash, but often underreport injury cases and do not collect reliable information on the severity of injuries. However, statistics on severe traffic injuries have been based almost exclusively on police data. The aim of this paper is to propose criteria based on medical records to define: a) Hospital discharge for traffic injuries, b) Person with severe traffic injury, and c) Death from traffic injuries in order to homogenize the use of these sources.
Subject
MESH
Wounds and Injuries | Humans | Accidents, Traffic | Terminology as Topic | Injury Severity Score | Patient Discharge
DECS
Accidentes de Tránsito | Terminología como Asunto | Humanos | Puntaje de Gravedad del Traumatismo | Alta del Paciente | Heridas y Lesiones
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