DEVELOPMENT OF DATA COLLECTION METHODOLOGY: CRASHES RESULTING IN HOSPITALISATION AND CASUALTY CRASHES NOT RESULTING IN HOSPITALISATION

This report examines current casualty crash data collections and makes recommendations for improved data collection methodologies for crashes resulting in hospitalisation and casualty crashes not resulting in hospitalisation. Recommendations include the increased utilisation of health sector data as well as augmentation of police reported crash data. Major recommendations include linkage of road crash databases with hospital morbidity files to improve data quality; use of hospital morbidity files to more accurately monitor serious injury rates; the application of AIS scoring to validate the severity of injury required for hospital admission; use of emergency department data to identify non-admitted crash victims for the purpose of enumeration; linkage of injury surveillance data with road crash databases to better describe crash types resulting in less severe injuries and to determine the extent of under-reporting in police reports; general practitioner sampling to estimate the proportion of GP attendances which result from road crashes. (a)

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• Corporate Authors:

  Australian Office of Road Safety

  P.O. Box 594
  Civic Square, A.C.T.,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • Ozanne-Smith, J
  • HAWORTH, N
• Publication Date: 1993-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 119 p.
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: CR120

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crashes; Data collection; Databases; Emergencies; Fatalities; Hospitals; Injuries; Methodology; Police
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 8006: Australia; 8623: Data acquisition; 8614: Database; 2184: Emergency; 1602: Fatality; 2177: Hospital; 2163: Injury; 9102: Method; 1522: Police
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00717842
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0-642-5126-8
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 20 1996 12:00AM