OBJECTIVE Accidental injuries are frequent and their socioeconomic consequences enormous. The present study aimed to identify predictors of the number of days of leave taken in a consecutively selected group of accident victims who sustained severe, mostly life-threatening physical trauma. METHOD One hundred patients with severe accidental injuries who were referred to a trauma surgeons' inte...

A Bayesian model for individual insurance claims is proposed which accounts the multivariate multilevel features of claims, including multiple claimants same event, each whom may receive benefits under different coverages. approach makes it possible to account missing values in covariates and partial information contained open files, thereby avoiding sampling bias induced when unsettled are ign...

background: all over the world motorcycle accident are one of the major causes of road death and injury. this study aimed to determine the pattern of motorcycle fatal accidents in mashhad-iran. methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in 2006 to analyze the epidemiological pattern of the mo­tor­cycle accident in mashhad, north-eastern iran . three hundred fifty cases of m...

the adverse consequences of major accident events have led to development of accident analysis techniques to investigate thoroughly the accidents. however, each technique has its own advantages and shortcomings,which make it very difficult to find a single technique being capable of analyzing all types of accidents. therefore, the comparison of accident analysis techniques would help finding ou...

The objective of an accident-mapping algorithm is to snap traffic accidents onto the correct road segments. Assigning accidents onto the correct segments facilitate to robustly carry out some key analyses in accident research including the identification of accident hot-spots, network-level risk mapping and segment-level accident risk modelling. Existing risk mapping algorithms have some severe...