A French road accident trauma registry: First results
LAUMON ; MARTIN ; COLLET ; CHIRON ; VERNEY ; NDIAYE ; VERGNES
Type de document
COMMUNICATION AVEC ACTES INTERNATIONAL (ACTI)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
LAUMON ; MARTIN ; COLLET ; CHIRON ; VERNEY ; NDIAYE ; VERGNES
Résumé / Abstract
In France, as in many Western countries, only one source is generally available for systematic access to crash data, i.e. the databases resulting from the computerization of reports of casualty accidents from the police. The main disadvantage of this database is that it contains no medical data. Since 1995, in France, in the departement du Rhone(*), a second, medical, source has been organized. The health service network responsible for casualties decided to draw up a Road Accident Trauma Registry. This network groups all the medical facilities involved, both public and private, as well as civil and military. Thus, we now have a database permitting the annual study of approximately 1,000 injured (or killed) pedestrians, 1,300 pedal cyclists, 1,600 motor cyclists, and nearly 5,000 car users. Our first aim is to better understand the nature and the number of injuries (including the lightest) inflicted on all road crash injury victims. Our second aim is to use this network to set up secondary safety studies, ranging from the analysis of certain injury mechanisms to longterm monitoring of groups of injured persons in order to assess the consequences of their injuries. So far, the first of these two objectives has been reached.
Editeur
Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
