road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death and disability in the world. so, the aim of current study was investigated the epidemiologic survey of road traffic injuries in patients admitted in al-jalil hospital in aq-qala. this study was conducted on 5774 patients during 2007-2012, to evaluate the profile of 2784 injury patients due to road traffic accidents, admitted in al- jalil hosp...

Road traffic accidents and the effects they subsequently incur are increasing dramatically, and estimating the cost of road traffic crashes could be a vital step in improving the recognition of this widespread problem. The main objective of this paper is to estimate the cost of road traffic crashes in Iran using the Human Capital (HC) Method. Results of this study indicate that the cost of road...

background india currently has the dubious distinction of experiencing the highest number of road traffic accidents in the world. objectives we believe that this study on road traffic accidents may help to identify factors in the pre-hospital setting that may influence mortality rates. patients and methods a prospective observational study was carried out in a metro area in india over a period ...

Every year, more than 400 people are killed in over 1200 accidents at road-rail level crossings in the European Union. Together with tunnels and specific road black spots, level crossings (LC) have been identified as being a particular weak point in road infrastructure, seriously jeopardizing road safety. Safety at LC is a single part of a wider picture of transport safety within the whole tran...

road traffic accidents and the effects they subsequently incur are increasing dramatically, and estimating the cost of road traffic crashes could be a vital step in improving the recognition of this widespread problem. the main objective of this paper is to estimate the cost of road traffic crashes in iran using the human capital (hc) method. results of this study indicate that the cost of road...

OBJECTIVE Road injuries are the leading injury-related cause of death among people aged 15-44. A clear dose-effect relationship has been demonstrated for drug and alcohol use and road traffic accidents. The objective of our study was to estimate the prevalence of drug and/or alcohol use in subjects admitted for road traffic accidents to an Emergency Department. METHODS In this study, conducte...

OBJECTIVE road traffic and home accidents are one of the leading causes of death for infants and adolescents between 0-18 years of age. This study aimed to describe the injuries of children in the Lazio Region, in the year 2000. DESIGN retrospective cohort study. SETTING road traffic and home accident injury visits to all Emergency Departments (ED) in the Lazio region during 2000, Hospital ...

The total number of police registered road accidents has stagnated for the last 10 years – between 2.2 and 2.5 million road accidents. There were slight increases in single years such as 2007, 2010 or 2015, but as well slight decreases in 2002 or 2011. On the long run, there is an increase since 2000 by 7 % in 2015. The forecast for 2016 also indicates an increase in accident figures by roundab...

The objective of this traffic safety investigation was to find critical road sections using Postand Preaccident analysis approaches. The Post-accident approach analyzes the effect of road geometric characteristics on accident rate. The study was based on accident and road maintenance data in Western Sweden. A total of 2912 accidents from 2000 to 2005 on 1615 km median-separated roads was collec...

objective: to determine the economic burden of road traffic accidents (rtas) in patients admitted to a single center in south eastern iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in amir-al-momenin hospital of zabol affiliated with zabol university of medical sciences during a 12-month period from april 2012 to april 2013. all the rtas patients who were admitted to our emergency depa...