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ROAD TRAUMA: WHO SHOULD BE COUNTED?
Author(s) -
E C Wigglesworth
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1977.tb114598.x
Subject(s) - citation , duration (music) , transport engineering , psychology , history , library science , medicine , computer science , engineering , art , literature
Fatalities associated with the use of road vehicles, as reported in two separate data series, are compared. The customarily used collection, Road Traffic Accidents Including Casualties , underreported the actual total of road trauma deaths in Australia for the decade 1965 to 1974 by almost 2000 cases (5·8%). Of this total, approximately half were attributable to duration of survival exceeding 30 days; the remainder could be accounted for by a quirk of definition which excluded “off‐road” accidents (in car parks, domestic and farm premises, factories and shopping centres). Cases excluded increased from 1·7% in 1965 to 8·4% in 1974. In the interests of accurate countermeasure evaluation, some revisions are recommended.