Crash Injuries and Long-Term Consequences: The CIREN Experience

The Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) is a multi-disciplinary collaboration of trauma physicians, engineers, epidemiologists, crash investigators and other social scientists researching the “cause and effect” of serious and/or disabling injuries sustained as a result of an automotive collision. CIREN is a network of 10 level 1-trauma centers spanning the United States and investigating approximately 400 crashes per year that result in serious and/or disabling injuries. The CIREN utilizes several unique processes and tools to research automotive crashes. One such tool utilized is the Medical Outcomes Study 36 – Item Short Form Survey (SF-36). The SF-36 has become one of the most widely used scoring tools for measuring outcomes after multiple trauma events. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the SF-36 scores for CIREN occupants, one year after their crash. Over three hundred CIREN occupants have been followed and responded to the SF-36 on the one-year timeline. These scores were analyzed in conjunction with crash dynamics and occupant factors in an attempt to determine which crash scenarios and injuries result in long-term physical and or mental consequences. This paper reviews the SF-36 scores for 346 CIREN occupants who were interviewed 12 months after their crash. The authors attempt to isolate injuries or injury types that show significant long-term consequences and possibly serious injuries that show little long-term issues. Associated factors are analyzed such as crash type, vehicle parameters, age and others.

• Record URL:
  http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-01/esv/esv19/05-0195-O.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Scarboro, Mark
  • McCullough, Catherine
  • Sarda, Priya
• Conference:
  • 19th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV)
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2005-6-6 to 2005-6-9
• Publication Date: 2005-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 9p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings - 19th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV), Washington, D.C., June 6-9, 2005

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash injuries; Crash injury research; Injury severity; Outcome (Medical treatment); Surveys
• Identifier Terms: Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network
• Uncontrolled Terms: Long term impacts
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01066478
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 05-0195
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 19 2007 7:21PM