EPIDEMIOLOGICAL METHODS IN CAUSAL ACCIDENT RESEARCH. MEDICINES AND ROAD TRAFFIC SAFETY

There are 2 main epidemiological methods in causal accident research: the prospective cohort (and experimental) method and the reprospective case-control method. The former is applicable to the study of common slight injuries, the latter to the study of rare severe injuries. The author describes two case-control studies carried out in Finland and outlines the principles underlying the design of accident research methods. Details are given of the sample size, classification of injury mechanism and severity (medical intervention, hospital admission, death), eligibility criteria for case selection, selection of controls, control of confounding in case-control data, and analysis of case-control data. (TRRL)

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  CNS (Clinical Neuroscience) Publishers

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• Authors:
  • HONKANEN, R
• Publication Date: 1988

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 23-33
• Serial:
  • Publication of: CNS (Clinical Neuroscience) Publishers
  • Publisher: CNS (Clinical Neuroscience) Publishers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Crash causes; Crashes; Epidemiology; Injuries; Injury severity; Methodology; Statistics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Causes; Selection; Severity
• Geographic Terms: Finland
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 6471: Analysis (math); 9003: Cause; 8525: Conference; 8035: Finland; 2163: Injury; 9102: Method; 6553: Sample (stat); 9072: Selection; 1623: Severity (accid, injury)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00493020
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 1-869868-02-1
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: May 31 1990 12:00AM