As a consequence of the 1989 National Health Service review health authorities are likely to take a greater interest in patterns of use of secondary care services by patients of different general practitioners. Use of accident and emergency departments has been shown to predict subsequent use of other hospital services. If meaningful comparisons are to be made between practices it is important ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM To establish the causes and circumstances of fatalities in recreational boating and sub-aqua diving inland or around the United Kingdom during the years 2006 and 2007, to comparefatal accident rates according to the type of boat, to identify causal patterns, and to discuss preventative measures to reduce the fatalities. MATERIALS AND METHODS Examinations of marine accident ...

Childhood mortality from injuries is known to be higher in children from deprived backgrounds, but the picture for non-fatal injuries is less clear. Fractures provide a measure of injury rates that is independent of distance from accident and emergency departments. Lyons et al found no difference in fracture rates in children from deprived and affluent areas. This, however, contradicts our anec...

Thirteen states currently either mandate no-fault auto insurance or allow drivers to choose between no-fault and tort insurance. No-fault auto insurance requires individuals to carry personal injury protection (PIP) insurance that compensates them for economic losses sustained in automobile accidents, regardless of whoever is at fault, and prohibits individuals from suing for non-economic damag...

AIM Each year approximately two to four helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) crashes occur in Germany. The aim of the present study was to compare crash rates and fatal crash rates in Germany to rates in other countries. MATERIALS AND METHODS A MEDLINE search from 1970 to 2009 was performed using combinations of the keywords "HEMS", "rescue helicopter", "accident", "accident rate", "c...

Survey data on large trucks involved in fatal accidents and on the travel of large trucks provide estimates of fatal accident involvement rates by driver age. The analysis is focused on the implications of lowering the minimum age for drivers of commercial trucks operating interstate from 21 to 19 years. Fatal accident involvement rates for drivers of large trucks are found to increase with dec...

The study investigated whether occupational accident risks were equally distributed across age categories over time in the context of production reorganization and work rationalization in a Swedish iron ore mine between 1980 and 1993. Three phases of reorganization, defined by productivity levels, and four age categories were related to age-related accident risk ratios using the Poisson-regress...

Traffic accidents are one of the leading causes of fatalities in the US. An important indicator of survival rates after an accident is the time between the accident and when emergency medical personnel are dispatched to the scene. Eliminating the time between when an accident occurs and when first responders are dispatched to the scene decreases mortality rates by 6%. One approach to eliminatin...