National Highway Traffic Safety Administration notes. Rehabilitation costs and long-term consequences of motor vehicle injuries.

نویسنده

  • Mary Pat Kay
چکیده

The UDSMR collects and redistributes data from rehabilitation hospitals nationwide for use in evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of their rehabilitation programs. It provides the most comprehensive data available on rehabilitation patients across diagnostic categories. This chapter provides UDSMR information on people injured in other motor vehicles and motorcycle crashes, including demographics, type of injury, length of stay, primary payers, and post-injury rehabilitation circumstances such as employment status, living situation, and functional independence.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Annals of emergency medicine

دوره 49 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007