PRIMARY OBJECTIVE The experiment determined first whether visible markers of brain injury shape judgements of severity of injury and time since injury; and secondly whether these two judgements predict attributions for undesirable actions performed by an adolescent with brain-injury. RESEARCH DESIGN Scenarios presented a photograph of an adolescent, in one condition with a head scar and in a ...

A most commonly identified exogenous factor that significantly affects traffic crash injury severity sustained is the collision type variable. Most studies consider collision type only as an explanatory variable in modeling injury. However, it is possible that each collision type has a fundamentally distinct effect on injury severity sustained in the crash. In this paper, we examine the hypothe...

DRIVER INJURY SEVERITY AT U.S. HIGHWAY-RAIL CROSSINGS

objectives: the purpose of this multi-center study was to investigate the probable predictive factors of mortality and morbidity in elderlypopulation. methods & materials: the descriptive prospective study was conducted based on the data gathered from trauma cases older than 65 years admitted to sina, shohada and fayaz-bakhsh trauma centers during years 1997-98. a pre-prepared questionnaire inc...

conclusions blunt chest trauma from rta represents one-fifth of the total trauma admissions in qatar, with a high overall mortality. pedestrians are likely to have more severe injuries and higher fatality rates than mvc victims. specific injury prevention programs focusing on road safety should be implemented to minimize the incidence of such preventable injuries. background blunt chest trauma ...

The current study contributes to the existing injury severity modeling literature by developing a multivariate probit model of injury severity and seat belt use decisions of both drivers involved in two-vehicle crashes. The modeling approach enables the joint modeling of the injury severity of multiple individuals involved in a crash, while also recognizing the endogeneity of seat belt use in p...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The coverage of the official statistics is poor in motorcycle and moped accidents. The aim of this study was to analyze the severity of motorcycle and moped crashes, and to define the degree of under-reporting in official statistics. MATERIAL AND METHODS All first attendances due to an acute motorcyclist or moped driver injury registered in the emergency department between...

background traumatic brain injury (tbi) is an important public health problem throughout the world. objective this study assesses repeated glasgow coma scale (gcs) scores to predict the severity of tbi and survival of the patients. materials and methods a sample of 239 patients who were hospitalized with traumatic brain injury was selected by random sampling from icu wards at shahid beheshti ho...