BACKGROUND Comorbidity is known to affect length of hospital stay and mortality after trauma but less is known about its impact on recovery beyond the immediate post-accident care period. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of pre-existing health conditions in the cost of recovery from road traffic injury using health service use records for 1 year before and after the injury. M...

background injuries and accidents are the first cause of death in the first 5 years of children life in the world; the present study was conducted to investigate the extent and distribution of accidents in the infants under one year in hamadan province, iran. materials and methods:this cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study was carried out using of   data of injuries and accidents related t...

background: approximately, 90% of workplace accidents are due to human errors. the study of the relationship between individual differences and accidents and injuries are beneficial in the prevention of these accidents. the aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism and occupational accident rates in the petro...

background trauma constitutes a major public health problem in our country and contributes significantly to unacceptably high morbidity and mortality. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the epidemiology of trauma in dead patients referred to shahid rajaee trauma hospital, shiraz, iran. patients and methods in a cross-sectional study, all patients with trauma admitted to our center were enr...

Road traffic accidents (RTA’s) continue to be a serious problem. The paper argues that much research and effort to minimise this problem is locked into a fundamental misconception in so far as it assumes that blame, responsibility or engineering inadequacies can explain RTA’s. The whole system of motorised transport, mobility patterns, land uses, governmental intervention and large company supp...

Designers and accidentologists have to collaborate in order to develop new safety systems. Accidentologists recognize Accident Scenario as a powerful tool to provide designers with the required knowledge about accident. However, an accident scenario has to be presented in a way that both designers and accidentologists can understand and use. The fact that designers and accidentologists do not s...

The paper presents the guidelines and the features of ARS, a project focused on the application of advanced methods and technologies for improving road accident data collection. In the first part of the paper, the most common types of accident reporting errors are described. Then the costs and benefits associated with some potential strategies to improve the data collection are compared. The AR...