Head Injuries (TBI) to Adults and Children in Motor-Vehicle Crashes.

CONCLUSIONS: The annual, national incidence of motor-vehicle related head injury (TBI) was estimated using 1997-2010 NASS-CDS from the Department of Transportation and NHAMCS (ED visits), NHDS (hospitalizations) and NVSS (deaths) from the Department of Health and Human Services. The transportation and health databases use different definitions and coding, which complicate direct comparisons. Future work is need where ICD to AIS translators are used if comparisons of serious head injuries in NASS and health datasets are to be made. PMID: 28112983 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - January 22, 2017 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Viano DC, Parenteau CS, Xu L, Faul M Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research