HIGHWAY FATAL ACCIDENTS AND ACCESSIBILITY OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES

Medical estimates of potentially "salvageable" lives with better emergency medical services (EMS) in fatal highway crashes have generally been around 20%. In rural counties in Texas, however, our statistical results show that at least 38% of fatal accidents could have been nonfatal. This higher figure may reflect the extreme contrasts in EMS accessibility that exist in certain rural areas. Accident related variables that would have affected our results were controlled by log linear analysis. Better "quality" EMS in rural Texas would apparently, save lives, but to insure cost-effectiveness more needs to be learned about the impact of various components of EMS: notification time, ambulance response and hospital care.

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  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Maxwell House, Fairview Park
  Elmsford, NY  United States  10523
• Authors:
  • BRODSKY, H
  • Hakkert, A S
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 731-740
• Serial:
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue Number: 11
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0277-9536
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02779536

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Cost effectiveness; Disasters and emergency operations; Fatalities; Hazards and emergency operations; Medical services; Rural areas; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Emergency response
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00396518
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-037 562
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 31 1985 12:00AM