The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the injury characteristics, severity, and outcome between underweight and normal-weight patients hospitalized for the treatment of all kinds of trauma injury.This study was based on a level I trauma center Taiwan.The detailed data of 640 underweight adult trauma patients with a body mass index (BMI) of <18.5 kg/m and 6497 normal-weight adult ...

Background: Injuries are the highest cause of death for international tourists, especially injuries caused by traffic accidents. The severity level injury is most death. It necessary to analyze risk factor among travelers visiting Bali. Purpose: This study aimed investigate factors in foreign tourists Methods: cross-sectional analytic used an hospital Bali as research sample. was conducted anal...

OBJECTIVE The variety and extent of impairments occurring after traumatic brain injury vary according to the nature and severity of the lesions. In order to better understand their interactions and long-term outcome, we have studied and compared the cognitive and neurobehavioral profile one year post onset of patients with and without traumatic brain injury in a cohort of motor vehicle accident...

The age, sex, source of referral and diagnosis of children brought to a paediatric accident and emergency department by their parents were compared to those consulting their general practitioner. A simultaneous, prospective review of these consultations was carried out over a six-week period in an inner-city paediatric teaching hospital and a group practice in a socially deprived urban area. 73...

This paper presents the development of an Aircraft Performance Risk Assessment Model (APRAM). The model consists of a set of software tools that processes aircraft data available from Digital Flight Data Recorders (DFDRs) and Quick Access Recorders (QARs) to identify precursor events and compute incident and accident risks. The feasibility version of the generic risk assessment model is limited...

One source of vehicle conflict is the freeway weaving section, where a merge and diverge in close proximity require vehicles either entering or exiting the freeway to execute one or more lane changes. Using accident data for a portion of Southern California, we examined accidents that occurred on three types of weaving sections defined in traffic engineering: Type A, where every merging or dive...