OBJECTIVES To examine epidemiological trends of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) treated in the Emergency Department (ED), identify demographic groups at risk of TBI, and determine the factors associated with hospitalization following an ED visit for TBI. METHODS A province-wide database was used to identify all ED visits for TBI in Ontario, Canada between April 2002 and March 2010. Trends were a...

This paper proposes an econometric structure for injury severity analysis at the level of individual accidents that recognizes the ordinal nature of the categories in which injury severity are recorded, while also allowing flexibility in capturing the effects of explanatory variables on each ordinal category and allowing heterogeneity in the effects of contributing factors due to the moderating...

Many global challenges, including obesity, health care costs, and climate change, could be addressed in part by increasing the use of bicycles for transportation. Concern about the safety of bicycling on roadways is frequently cited as a deterrent to increasing bicycle use in the USA. The use of effective signage along roadways might help alleviate these concerns by increasing knowledge about t...

• The highest speeds (85th–50th percentile) are informative for predicting walking and cycling crashes. lowest (50th–15th less Probe may be a surrogate safety metric bike pedestrian Cyclists pedestrians account disproportionate amount of the world’s 1.3 million road deaths every year. This is growing problem in United Sates where bicyclist fatalities have increased steadily since 2009. A large ...

BACKGROUND Ambulance crashes have become an increasing source of public concern. Emergency medical services directors have little data to develop ambulance operation and risk management policies. OBJECTIVE To describe fatal ambulance crash characteristics, identifying those that differentiate emergency and nonemergency use crashes. METHODS This was a retrospective analysis of all fatal ambu...

As cities across North America install infrastructure to accommodate a growing number and variety of bicyclists, installation of bicycle-specific traffic signals is a common design element. A recent survey showed a lack of consistency in design and timing. In particular, minimum green signal timing is highly dependent on the assumed acceleration and speed performance of bicyclists, but no detai...

The number of road accidents in Indonesia is very high and continues to increase, one the causes that there are still many roads have not applied specific safety principles their planning designs. To overcome this, it necessary implement a strategy improve using existing methods. In this study, IRAP method was used M.H. Thamrin achieve 4 star rating.From results found segment good for vehicle o...

OBJECTIVES Historically, mechanically unstable fractures of the distal femur have been difficult to treat. Problems such as varus collapse, malunion, and nonunion frequently resulted before fixed-angle plates and indirect reduction techniques were popularized. More recently, the Less Invasive Stabilization System, or LISS (Synthes, Paoli, PA), has been designed to combine these 2 approaches wit...

BACKGROUND A data acquisition from the medical sector may give one important view of the burden on the society caused by vehicle related injuries. The official police-reported statistics may only reflect a part of all vehicle-related injured seeking medical attention. The aim is to provide a comprehensive picture of the burden of vehicle related injuries on the medical sector (2013), and to com...