OBJECTIVES To use police STATS19 road casualty data and accident and emergency and in-patient information to estimate the impact of mobile safety cameras on the cost of treating individuals injured in road traffic collisions. DESIGN A data-matching and costing exercise to link casualty and clinical information in a 'before' and 'after' study of 56 mobile safety cameras. SETTING The Northumb...

Traffic congestion has many negative effects on our daily lives, the economy and the environment. These effects get worse in critical situations (e.g., emergency urban evacuations) when human lives are at risk. As smart cities are becoming a reality, technologies known as Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been considered as viable solutions for the many negative effects of congestio...

My On the Road travels continued in March at the gracious invitation of Lena Cuthbertson, the Provincial Director, Patient-Centered Performance Measurement & Improvement, Clinical Care and Patient Safety Branch, Ministry of Health, British Columbia (BC) and Co-Chair of the BC Patient Satisfaction Steering Committee. The long trip to the Northwest region of the continent was matched by an extens...

The following report contains information about a proposed technology by the authors, which consists of a device that sits inside of a vehicle and constantly monitors the car’s information. It can determine speed, g-force, and location coordinates. Using these data, the device can detect a car crash or pothole on the road. The data collected from the car is forwarded to a server to for more in-...

PURPOSE The objective was to determine a link between the number of non-English language references in the bibliographies of publications in international pharmaceutical journals and the geographic origin of these publications.