Understanding traffic crash under-reporting: Linking police and medical records to individual and crash characteristics

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 580-584

  Janstrup, Kira H ^a   Kaplan, Sigal ^a   Hels, Tove ^b   Lauritsen, Jens ^c   Prato, Carlo G ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Danish National Police   (Denmark)

^c ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

capture recapture method; crash underreporting; hospital reports; joint model estimation; police reports

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; POLICE; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; POLICE; RECORDS AS TOPIC; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84975118519     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2015.1128533     Document Type: Article

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