Traffic accident data are often heterogeneous, which can cause certain relationships to remain hidden. Therefore, traffic accident analysis is often performed on a small subset of traffic accidents or several models are built for various traffic accident types. In this paper, we examine the effectiveness of a clustering technique, i.e. latent class clustering, for identifying homogenous traffic...

Rohollah Lak 1, 3, MSc; Abolfazl Hajari 2, MSc; Mohsen Naderi Beni, MSc, MPH3* 1Health Technology Assessment, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 2Center of Disease Control, Tiran & Karvan Center of Health, 3Center of Disease Control, Chadegan Center of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Received: Jan 29, 2014; Accepted: Feb 12, 2014; First Online Availabl...

conclusions the os trigonum syndrome should take in consideration in elderly subject who had posterior ankle pain starting after a car accident. case presentation a 62-year-old female patient was admitted with load depended ankle pain and swelling, lasting for five years which promptly started after a car accident. we incidentally discovered os trigonum on plain radiography on a lateral view of...

epilepsy is a disease with high prevalence, which interferes driving and may lead to car accident this case-control study has been done on 100 epileptic patients and 100 persons as control group, who had history of driving. we gathered our patients with face to face interview and registering their information in special forms which were prepared for this study. there were three times more accid...

background accident is an event that occurs suddenly, unexpectedly and inadvertently under unforeseen circumstances. accidents can have individual, social and economical effects 2080 injury cases including labor-law workers were studied in mashhad city, islamic republic of iran. their data were collected from the labor office archive. objectives this study was conducted to determine the effecti...

Objectives. To examine the utilisation pattern of accident and emergency services and to study the possible impact of a user-fee policy on non-emergency attendances in Hong Kong. Design. Retrospective study. Methods. Four different scenarios are postulated to examine the impact on the number of accident and emergency attendances of a user-fee policy from 2000 to 2029. Patient volume data of acc...

BACKGROUND Because of occupational accidents, permanent disabilities and deaths occur and economic and workday losses emerge. OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study was to investigate the factors responsible for occupational accidents occurred in Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS The current study analyzed 1464 occupational accidents recorded by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs' offic...

Road network are the life line for the movement of people and freight and plays an important role in the development of a region but road accidents cause heavy burden on financial and social setup of an economy. According to a WHO report, road accidents will become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030. Despite lot of effort from various agencies in curbing traffic accidents, they are on the...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to demonstrate the use of a systems theory-based accident analysis technique in health care applications as a more powerful alternative to the chain-of-event accident models currently underpinning root cause analysis methods. METHOD A new accident analysis technique, CAST [Causal Analysis based on Systems Theory], is described and illustrated on a set of adverse car...