Validity of using linked hospital and police traffic crash records to analyse motorcycle injury crash characteristics

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 30-35

  Wilson, Suzanne J ^a   Begg, Dorothy J ^a   Samaranayaka, Ari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Data linkage; Hospital record; ICISS; Motorcycle; Police road traffic crash report; Traffic accident

Indexed keywords

CHI-SQUARE TESTS; DATA LINKAGE; DATA SETS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; ICISS; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASE; MOTORCYCLE INJURY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; NEW ZEALAND; POLICE RECORDS; ROAD TRAFFIC CRASHES; ROAD USERS; SERIOUS INJURIES; TRAFFIC CRASHES;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LOGISTICS; MOTORCYCLES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

HOSPITALS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTORCYCLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; NEWBORN; POLICE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTORCYCLES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POLICE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867044498     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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