objective: to determine the epidemiological characteristics of fatal traumatic accidents in patients referred to a hospital in babol, northern iran. methods: thiswas a cross-sectionalstudy being performed during a 1-year period including all the dead trauma patients referred to shahidbeheshtihospital of babol. we included all those patients who were transferred to our center to trauma and injur...

objective : to determine the epidemiological characteristics of the road traffic injuries (rtis) in guilan province, northern iran. methods: this study was a cross-sectional study which included all of rtis admitted to medical centers of guilan province (northern iran) during 2012. icd-10 was used as diagnostic criteria. demographic variables also injury circumstance and in hospital variables s...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to determine the sleepiness-related factors associated with road traffic accidents. METHODS A population based case-control study was conducted in 2 French agglomerations. 272 road accident cases hospitalized in emergency units and 272 control drivers matched by time of day and randomly stopped by police forces were included in the study. Odds ratios were calcula...

Several comments are made regarding the recent papers by F. Ayati on road accidents in Iran.

Traffic accident is increased from time to time in alarming rate and it is a serious problem throughout the globe, particularly, in developing countries like Ethiopia. In this study our aim was to identify the major factors that affect the occurrence of traffic accidents at Bahir Dar city, North Western Ethiopia. The drivers were selected using simple random sampling methods and descriptive sta...

Introduction: The present study aims to design a weather-based early warning system to prevent traffic accidents fatalities. Methodology: In this study, the Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) was used to determine epidemic threshold. By roc curve, the Sensitivity and Specificity of temperature points were determined and, the point with highest sensitivity and specificity was selected base...

Based on statistics released by Islamic Republic of Iran Police (IRIP), from among the total 9555 motorcycle accidents that happened in 2007, 857 riders died and 11219 one got injured. If we also consider the death toll and injuries of other vehicles' accidents resulted from traffic violation by motorcycle riders, then paying attention to the motorcycle accidents seems to be very necessary. The...

injuries caused by traffic accidents cause many deaths and disabilities children. road traffic injuries are the main cause of death between the ages of 15 and 19 years and is the second cause of death among 5 to 14 year olds. children's attitudes about driving and safe use of roads formed in 11 years. road traffic injuries is one of the five cause of disability among children. most victims...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of severe psychological trauma --that is, post-traumatic stress disorder--in children involved in everyday road traffic accidents. DESIGN 12 month prospective study. SETTING Accident and emergency department, Royal United Hospital, Bath. SUBJECTS 119 children aged 5-18 years involved in road traffic accidents and 66 children who sustained sports injur...