Injury Severity describes the severity of the injury to the person involved in the crash. Understanding the factors that influence injury severity can be helpful in designing mechanisms to reduce accident fatalities. Several research studies have examined the relationship between injury severity and the possible factors that can be related to the severity of the injury. These include driver-rel...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to predict time off work following unintentional injuries due to accidents leading to hospital admission. DESIGN Prospective 6-month follow-up study. SETTING Department of Trauma Surgery of a University Hospital. PARTICIPANTS Consecutively recruited victims of unintentional injuries (n=221) hospitalised for a minimum of 32 h including two consecutive ni...

AIM To analyze the severity of automotive injuries associated with blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in increments of 0.01%. DESIGN/SETTING Epidemiological study using the Fatality Analysis Reporting System. PARTICIPANTS All people in US fatal automotive accidents, 1994-2008 (n = 1 495 667). MEASUREMENTS The ratio of serious: non-serious injuries for drivers, by BAC. FINDINGS Accident s...

Road network are the life line for the movement of people and freight and plays an important role in the development of a region but road accidents cause heavy burden on financial and social setup of an economy. According to a WHO report, road accidents will become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030. Despite lot of effort from various agencies in curbing traffic accidents, they are on the...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to improve the concordance of community-acquired pneumonia management in Australian emergency departments with national guidelines through a quality improvement initiative promoting concordant antibiotic use and use of a pneumonia severity assessment tool, the pneumonia severity index (PSI). DESIGN and INTERVENTIONS Drug use evaluation, a quality im...

Road accidents have a definite impact in terms of lives, welfare and traffic congestion, especially with increase in mobility and number of overall vehicles. Prevention policies can greatly benefit from data analysis of positions and accident characteristics. This work presents a practical integration of open source software for the implementation of an instrument to insert, store, automaticall...

In-depth, retrospective accident investigation studies provide a means to understand how car occupants are injured in road traffic accidents. In most retrospective studies, crash severity is estimated using the CRASH3 computer program. capable of crash severity assessment, PC-CRASH is more focused on accident reconstruction, and is therefore not discussed in this paper. AiDamage is a crash seve...

background: hyponatremia has poor outcomes in other cardiopulmonary disorders, but its predictive value in predicting mortality of patients with acute pulmonary embolism is unknown. so, we evaluate the mortality of inpatients diagnosed with pulmonary embolism (pe) who had hyponatremia at the time of admission. materials and methods: by conducting a cohort study in patients with acute pulmonary ...

background rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic inflammatory disease with extra- articular involvement. eyes in particular are one of the most common sites of involvement in rheumatoid arthritis. on the other hand, dry eye syndrome is the most common conflict in terms of management. particular studies suggested dry eye has been associated with greater rheumatoid arthritis severity, but its as...