Underreporting of driver alcohol involvement in United States police and hospital records: Capture-recapture estimates

Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue , 2012, Pages 87-96

  Miller, Ted R ^a   Gibson, Rekaya ^a   Zaloshnja, Eduard ^a   Blincoe, Lawrence J ^b   Kindelberger, John ^b   Strashny, Alexander ^b   Thomas, Andrea ^c   Ho, Shiu ^d   Bauer, Michael ^e   Sperry, Sarah ^e   Peng, Justin ^f   Singleton, Mike ^g   Smith, Tracy J ^h   Zhang, Ying ⁱ  

^a PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f CDC   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^h South Carolina State Budget and Control Board   (United States)

ⁱ Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE MODELS; CRASH OUTCOMES; DATA EVALUATION; DRIVER INJURY SEVERITIES; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; INJURY CRASHES;

EMERGENCY ROOMS; ESTIMATION; SURVEYS;

LAW ENFORCEMENT;

ALCOHOL;

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INJURY; MEDICAL RECORD; POLICE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ETHANOL; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; POLICE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84876697364     PISSN: 19432461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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