PREHOSPITAL AND HOSPITAL COSTS OF ROAD ACCIDENTS--THE MICROSCOPIC APPROACH

This Bulletin is a summary of the findings from a research project that involved a detailed analysis of injury costs of all accident admissions to Christchurch Hospital over a two month period from the time of impact at the accident site, until the discharge of the accident victim from the hospital. The cost data collected also included out-patient care up to 3 months following hospital discharge. From this study a relationship between average daily hospital stay costs, and costs for road accident patients as a single group was able to be established. Other aims of the study were to obtain information of seat belt use, to compare costs of injuries with and without seat belt use, to define injury patterns associated with a particular type of accident, to compare hospital records with those obtained, by the Ministry of Transport, to collect information regarding the road accident victim's age, race, socioeconomic group, licence status, driving and drinking habits, and to identify time, day and location of the accident.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Roads Board, New Zealand

  P.O. Box 12-041
  Wellington,   New Zealand 
• Authors:
  • Fairhall, G C
  • Fahey, M F
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: v.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Crash records; Crash types; Crash victims; Crashes; Injuries; Manual safety belts; Utilization
• Uncontrolled Terms: Accident costs
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00379552
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: RRU Bulletin 62, HS-034 914
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 30 1983 12:00AM