Total costs of bicycle injuries in Norway: Correcting injury figures and indicating data needs

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1162-1169

  Veisten, Knut ^a   Sælensminde, Kjartan ^a   Alvær, Kari ^b   Bjørnskau, Torkel ^a   Elvik, Rune ^a   Schistad, Trude ^c   Ytterstad, Børge ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT ECONOMICS   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN PUBLIC ROADS ADMINISTRATION   (Norway)

^d Harstad Hospital   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bicycle accidents; Costs; Hospital data; Injury severity; Official data; Underreporting

Indexed keywords

BICYCLES; COSTS; DATA REDUCTION; HEALTH RISKS; STATISTICS;

BICYCLE ACCIDENTS; BICYCLE INJURIES; HOSPITAL RECORDING;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ARTICLE; BICYCLE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NORWAY; REGISTER; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BICYCLING; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NORWAY; REGISTRIES;

EID: 34948839440     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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