An important method for the development of strategies and measures to prevent accidents and mitigate the injury severity is the analysis of accident databases. However, the variety of research questions requires different kind of information. To assess accident situations, examine trends, or similar analysis, databases at a base level such as national statistics are available for many countries...

Typically low severity neck injuries (whiplash injuries) have been associated with front and rear impacts. These injuries are classified as low severity injuries and are given the lowest rating on the Abbreviated Injury Scale of (AIS) 1. In spite of its low severity rating, these injuries can be disabling and life altering. More recently, the literature has highlighted the need to investigate l...

On each of three sessions, 5s viewed 20 presentations of an isolated accident (experimental group) or a benign (control group) motion picture scene. At the end of each session, 5s also saw the complete movie from which these scenes were taken. Skin conductance, self-reported distress, and, to a lesser extent, heart rate showed considerable carry-over of habituation from the accident scene viewe...

This study addressed self-blame and adaptation by using data collected from 49 patients hospitalized for the treatment of acute burn wounds. Nurses and physical therapists rated patients' compliance with the therapeutic activities essential for proper healing, and they rated pain behavior. After controlling for burn severity and time since admission, regression analyses showed that behavioral s...

Method Data was collected for patients coming to the emergency department of PESIMSR, Kuppam with the history of road traffic accidents. The study was a descriptive study with prospectve sampling durng the period from October 2012 to April 2014. Data were collected as per the Performadate and time of accident, date and time of arrival to emergency department, age, sex, education, place of accid...

Using a self-administered alcohol-related questionnaire and the clinical records a survey was made of the prevalence and severity of alcohol-related problems in the accident and emergency department at the Belfast City Hospital. Of 10,410 consecutive attendances during three months, 6,625 completed a questionnaire: 4,349 admitted they took alcohol at some time, 906 men exceeded 21 units weekly,...

The purpose of this study was: (1) to propose a classification system for the contributory factors behind major coach and bus accidents with mass casualties based on human factor analysis (HFACS); (2) identify main indicators causal factors. Based 56 official investigation reports more than 10 fatalities, qualitative content was conducted develop modified these accidents, gray correlation causa...