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Chourasia, Sachin, K. V. Radhakrishna, Ravi Rautji, and Shivakumar D. K. "Road traffic accidents attending casualty in a tertiary care hospital : a 03 year study from South Western India." International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences 7, no. 10 (September 25, 2019): 3744. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20194303.
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Background: Road Traffic Accident (RTA) is any vehicular accident occurring on the roadway i.e. originating on, terminating on, or involving a vehicle partially on the roadway. Road traffic accidents are a human tragedy which has an immeasurable impact on the families affected. The WHO estimates that over 1.2 million people pass away every year on the world’s roads, and between 20 and 50 million fall victims to non-fatal injuries. The incidence of RTA remains poorly measured in India.Methods: The present study is conducted at casualty department of a tertiary care hospital in South Western India among victims of road traffic accident. This cross sectional study was conducted to elucidate the role of various factors involved in road traffic accidents and to study demographic profile and injury pattern among RTA victims. All the reported RTA cases from 1st January 2016 to 31st December 2018 were included in the study.Results: A total of 875 cases of RTA were studied. There were 83.77%(n=733) male and 16.23%(n=142) female accident victims. Most of the patients were aged between 21 and 30 years. Monsoons witnessed 46.63%(n=408) cases. Most cases occurred between 6 and 12pm (54.4%, n=476). Commonest injury was a simple injury (72.91%, n=638), dangerous injuries (27.09% percent, n=237) and dead was (7.43%, n=65). The highest number of accidents took place in the month of June (19.09%, n=167) and on Sundays (22.17%). Among the motorized vehicles, two-wheeler drivers were more (76.91%, n=673) involved in accidents. In this study 17.60% (n=154) were under influence of alcohol while driving.Conclusions: This study shows there are multiple factors associated with road traffic accidents. Most of the factors responsible for RTA and its fatal consequences are preventable. India, as a signatory to the Brasilia declaration, intends to reduce road accidents and traffic fatalities by 50% by 2022. A comprehensive multipronged approach can mitigate most of them.
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Rahman, Md Moshiur, Farzana Zafreen, and Abu Noman Mohammed Mosleh Uddin. "Characteristics of Road Traffic Accident Cases Reported in a Tertiary Military Hospital." Journal of Armed Forces Medical College, Bangladesh 15, no. 2 (December 20, 2020): 213–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jafmc.v15i2.50842.
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Introduction: Road traffic accidents (RTA) are the eighth leading cause of death globally, and the leading cause of death in Bangladesh. The road safety situation in Bangladesh has been deteriorating with increasing number of road accident deaths, largely as direct consequences of rapid growth in population, motorization, urbanization and lack of investment in road safety.
Objectives: To describe the injury characteristics of road traffic accidents cases that reported at Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka.
Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional hospital based study was conducted on all the RTA cases reported to medical inspection room CMH, Dhaka from 01 March to 30 June 2010. A total of 126 RTA victims irrespective of age and sex were included, data were collected by face to face interview using a pre-tested questionnaire.
Results: A total of 126 road traffic accident victims both sexes were studied. The majority of the study subjects were men 103 (81.7%) and most of them were in 31-40 years group (27%), Muslims (98.41%) were the majority. In our study regarding educational qualification of RTA victims most of them were SSC qualified (44’4%) and primary level (15.1%). Military services holder (45.2%) was the majority of road traffic crash victims. Bus/Minibus (32.5%) was responsible for the majority of road traffic crashes and motor vehicle passengers (42.9%) were main victims. Laceration & cut injury were (38.1%) and multiple injury (18.3%) were the most common injury. Main roads (49.2%) were the commonest site of the accidents. Regarding place of occurrence main roads 62 (49.2%) was the most common site and noon 41 (32.5%) was the most common time of occurrence of accidents.
Conclusion: Road traffic crashes constitute a major public health problem in our setting and contribute significantly to unacceptably high morbidity and mortality. Urgent preventive measures targeting at reducing the occurrence of road traffic crashes is necessary to reduce the morbidity and mortality resulting from these injuries. Early recognition and prompt treatment of road traffic injuries is essential for optimal patient outcome.
JAFMC Bangladesh. Vol 15, No 2 (December) 2019: 213-217
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Timofeeva, Svetlana S., Semen S. Timofeev, and Aleksey А. Taskaev. "Risks of road accidents in Irkutsk region." XXI century. Technosphere Safety 5, no. 4 (December 2020): 411–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.21285/2500-1582-2020-4-411-420.
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The article deals with the issue of road safety. The aim is to analyze the accident rate on the roads of rkutsk region and assess the risk of road traffic accidents (RTA). The research is based on statistical data. A comparative analysis of the risks of road accidents and the risks of death of road users is carried out. The risk of death in accidents is higher in Slyudyanka district than in Irkutsk region, which is due to the complex route and mountainous areas. The damage caused by road traffic accidents is increasing every year.
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Agrawal, Tripti, Sandeep Kumar Sinha, and Nitesh Agrawal. "Retrospective Evaluation of Determinants of Road Traffic Injuries at a Naval Station." Indian Journal of Community Health 33, no. 1 (March 31, 2021): 205–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.47203/ijch.2021.v33i01.030.
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Introduction: Several factors like globalization, industrialization, migration, access to modern ways of living, increasing income levels, easy availability of vehicles, point of use entertainment/communication gadgets, media influence and others have brought human beings in close contact with a variety of challenges to safe driving, resulting in an increased occurrence of Road Traffic injuries across the globe. Methods and Material: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at naval station amongst victims of road traffic accidents who reported to emergency department of naval hospital over period of six months. Interviews on structured questionnaire to explore various determinants of road traffic injuries (RTI). Data Analysis on 156 victims was carried out for proportion of study variables of interest, Chi square test to determine significant differences between demographic variables and RTA exposure. Results: Of 156 RTA victims, more than 50% were between 21 - 40 years; 69.9% were male; 93% accidents were contributed by driving speed more than 40km/hr; 47% occurred at road junctions followed by civil roads; 27% were due to collision. 23% accidents took place on Saturdays; 36% were in morning 06 - 12 hours. 1/3 accidents were caused by two wheeler vehicles. Negligence of driver (40.4%) poor road condition (24.4%) were major causes of the accident as reported by victims. 44.2% of the victims had minor injury; 58.7% drivers who met accidents were holding valid driving license; 38% were wearing protective gears and 56% narrated that road lights/ traffic signals were available at vantage points. Exposure to accidents was found to be having statistically significant difference when related to age, gender, type of accident, common causes of accident and use of protective gears. Conclusions: The stricter application of traffic laws and safety measures are required to bring down the road traffic accident rate and related mortality.
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Kovačević, Jelena, Maja Miškulin, Matea Matić Ličanin, Josip Barać, Dubravka Biuk, Hrvoje Palenkić, Suzana Matić, Marinela Kristić, Egon Biuk, and Ivan Miškulin. "Quality of life in road traffic accident survivors." Slovenian Journal of Public Health 59, no. 4 (October 18, 2020): 202–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2020-0026.
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AbstractIntroductionThe loss of quality of life is the major consequence following a non-fatal road traffic accident (RTA). Previous research regarding quality of life did not include uninjured RTA survivors. The research aim was thus to evaluate the quality of life of the RTA survivors regardless of whether or not they sustained injures, and to identify factors associated with decreased quality of life after the RTA.MethodsA cohort of 200 RTA survivors with and without injuries was followed after experiencing an RTA. The quality of life and mental health outcomes were assessed 1 month following RTA. A vast range of sociodemographic, pre-RTA health-related, RTA related, RTA injury-related, compensation-related factors and mental health outcomes were investigated.ResultsDecreased quality of life following an RTA showed an association with the low socioeconomic status of the RTA victims, poor pre-RTA health, injury-related factors, compensation-related factors and psychological disorders after the RTA.ConclusionsIdentifying predictors of decreased quality of life following an RTA will enable planning interventions targeting the most important factors that influence recovery of RTA victims. Assessing and recording of self-reported quality of life should be a part of the routine protocol in RTA survivors’ health-care.
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Abdulmajeed Alamri, Tarek M. Esmael, Sami Fawzy, Hany Hosny, Saleh Attawi, Ahmed Asiri, and Arulanantham Zechariah Jebakumar. "A study on Private Car Accidents." International Journal of Novel Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences 11, no. 1 (March 27, 2021): 10–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.26452/ijntps.v11i1.1409.
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In this study, road traffic injury (RTI) was defined as any injury resulting from a road traffic accident irrespective of severity and outcome. Road traffic accident (RTA) was defined as any crash on the road involving at least one moving vehicle, irrespective of it resulting in an injury. This could include collision with a vehicle or any non`moving object while driving/riding a vehicle, collision with a moving vehicle while walking/running/standing/ sitting on the road, or fall from a moving vehicle. The burden of road traffic accidents (RTA) is a leading cause of all trauma admissions in hospitals worldwide. Road traffic injuries cause considerable economic losses to victims, their families, and to nations as a whole. These losses arise from the cost of treatment (including rehabilitation and incident investigation) as well as reduced/lost productivity (e.g. in wages) for those killed or disabled by their injuries and for family members who need to take time off work (or school) to care for the injured. Road traffic fatality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is the highest, accounts for 4.7% of all mortalities. Road injuries also are reported to be the most serious in this country, with an accident to injury ratio of 8:6. In this study, we try to focus on some causes of the accidents in KSA, so we can implement the prevention plan.
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Shantajit, Thokchom, Chirom Ranjeev Kumar, and Quazi Syed Zahiruddin. "ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW." International Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Research 4, no. 4 (October 30, 2018): 36–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31878/ijcbr.2018.44.08.
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Road traffic accidents claim over a million lives every year in the world. As per World Health Organization (WHO) it is one of the leading cause of death. India, being a rapidly developing country with expanding economy has its own issues as regarding road traffic accidents due to rapid proliferation of motorization. Road traffic accidents causes enormous morbidity and mortality and at the same time, the toll on the economy of the country as a result of it is quite heavy. Road traffic accident is a result of an interaction among different factors which include the environment, vehicle and the human being. Traditionally it is considered that road traffic accidents are accidents which are unpredictable, inevitable and not preventable. But road traffic accidents are indeed predictable and preventable in majority of the cases. This require the knowledge of factors contributing and leading to road traffic accidents. There are certain preventive measures which if adopted can lead to decrease in morbidity and mortality resulting from RTA. Hence, it is the responsibility of all to contribute in reducing road traffic accidents.Keywords: Road traffic accidents; Road traffic injuries; Roads in India, Road safety; Vehicular registration.
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Kujur, Manisha, Asha Kiran, Anuj Pankaj Xaxa, and Vivek Kashyap. "Determinants of road traffic accidents cases in tertiary care hospital at Ranchi, Jharkhand." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 6, no. 11 (October 24, 2019): 4955. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20195087.
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Background: Worldwide, road traffic accident (RTA) poses a public health and development challenge and greatly affects the human capital development of every nation. This study aims in providing tangible evidences about determinants of road traffic accident cases at tertiary care center with a good area coverage giving insight into burden of RTA.Methods: This study was cross sectional hospital based study done in Rajendra Institute of Medical Science Ranchi, Jharkhand. Patients coming to emergency department were recorded and followed in ENT, neurosurgery and orthopedics department of RIMS, Ranchi in the period of one month (15th January to 20th Febuary2019).Results: Most of the patients were (59%) among the age group of 19-35 years of which 89.5% of the patients were male. 84.8% of the accident took place while motorcycle was driven. 53.3% of the patients were without license. Majority of the cases were driving between the speed of 30-60 km/hr at the time of accident. Majority of cases were not wearing helmet at time of accident (76%). Majority of accidents took place in state highway (53.3%) (roads connecting major cities of states). 59% of the accident took place at T-type junction. Major factor responsible was unusual behavior of man and animal (19%) and followed by overtaking (18.1%). Majority of the accidents were due to front collision (34.3%).Conclusions: There is a need for encouraging and promoting safe driving behavior among community members by the awareness through road safety campaigns and enforcement of road traffic laws to bring down the burden of RTA.
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Li, Xibing, Jiao Liu, Jian Zhou, Xiling Liu, Lei Zhou, and Wei Wei. "The Effects of Macroeconomic Factors on Road Traffic Safety: A Study Based on the ARDL-ECM Model." Sustainability 12, no. 24 (December 9, 2020): 10262. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su122410262.
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This paper attempts to examine whether socioeconomic volatility produces differentiated effects on road traffic accident indicators. Adopting the Autoregressive distributed lag error-correction model (ARDL-ECM), this paper explores the long-term equilibrium and short-term interactions between five common economic indicators, namely, average salaries (AS), employment (EM), unemployment (UE), total mileage of highway (TMH), and private vehicle ownership (PVO), as well as road traffic-related indicators including the number of road traffic accidents (RTA), injuries (IN), fatalities (FA), and direct economic losses (DEL), using data of road traffic accidents spanning from 1999 to 2018 in China. The study found that all economic indicators except average salaries showed a long-term equilibrium with road traffic accident indicators. The Granger causality test showed that, over the short term, an increase in employment could lead to an increase in injuries, and an increase in private vehicle ownership could cause a rise in fatalities. This study demonstrates that the volatility in economic indicators indeed produces differentiated effects on road traffic accident indicators, providing a theoretical basis for improving road safety performance and formulating relevant policies.
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Masuri, Mohamad Ghazali, Khairil Anuar Md Isa, and Mohd Pozi Mohd Tahir. "Children, Youth and Road Environment: Road traffic accident." Asian Journal of Environment-Behaviour Studies 2, no. 4 (July 1, 2017): 13–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/aje-bs.v2i4.206.
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Driving is a complex process which involves eye-hand-foot coordination. Failure to coordinate will contribute to road traffic accidents (RTA). Young drivers usually represent the highest number of individuals involved in the accident cases. Thus, three common ergonomics principle were examined in this study: human-machine-environment. Issues such as land use, vehicle design and the importance of law enforcement are briefly discussed. Further research is needed to improve driver’s behavior and responses while driving. Strict enforcement on legislation and early education on road safety are required. It is also suggested that developing country should refer to the preventive model used in developed countries for reference.
Keywords: Accident, Design, Road users
eISSN 2514-751X © 2017 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
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Arif, Mariam, Mushtaq Ahmed, and Syed Hamad Rasool. "ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS." Professional Medical Journal 22, no. 05 (May 10, 2015): 621–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.29309/tpmj/2015.22.05.1277.
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The specter of road traffic injuries takes a greater toll on human life every dayon our roads. Objectives: To analyze the demographic and injury profile of autopsy caseswith an alleged history of RTA (Road traffic accidents). Design: Retrospective study. Setting:Forensic Medicine Department of Nishtar Medical College, Multan. Period: January 2010 toDecember 2013. Material and Methods: 116 autopsy cases with an alleged history of RTA.Data collected pertaining to history, epidemiology, details of injuries and cause of death etc.was statistically analyzed on SPSS version17. Results: Out of 116 autopsies on RTA victims,46.55% victims were between 21-40 years with male: female ratio of 1.9:1. Maximum numberof accidents occurred during day time between 6 am and 5:59 pm (62.06%). 79.31% died atthe site of accidents. Pedestrians were the commonest victims (81.89%). Four wheelers causedmost of RTA 51(43.96%). The cause of death was opined to be head injury in 45.68% of cases.Conclusion: Addressing road safety in a comprehensive manner necessitates the involvementof multiple sectors, such as health, transport and police.
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Osifo, Osarumwense David, Theophilus Osasumwen Osagie, and Pius Ehiawaguan Iribhogbe. "Pediatric Road Traffic Accident Deaths Presenting to a Nigerian Referral Center." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 27, no. 2 (April 2012): 136–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x12000465.
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AbstractIntroductionRoad traffic accident (RTA) is a common cause of pediatric trauma death and disability, constituting a worldwide loss of financial resources and potential manpower. This study was designed to determine the causes, prehospital care, presentation, and injuries that resulted in deaths among pediatric victims of RTA in Nigeria, and to make suggestions, based on the study data, to reduce RTA deaths.MethodsThis is a retrospective analysis of pediatric RTA presenting to a Nigerian referral center. The records of all pediatric RTA between January 2006 and December 2010 at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital were analyzed for age, gender, causes of death, injury, rescue team prehospital treatment, injury to hospital arrival time, clinical condition on arrival, treatment, duration of hospitalization before death, challenges, and postmortem findings.ResultsTwenty-six (18%) of 143 pediatric RTA, comprising 18 males and 8 females, between less than one and 18 (mean 9.3 ± 5.2) years of age died. There was no significant statistical demographic difference observed when 15 (58%) deaths recorded among 67 (46.9%) children involved in motor vehicle accidents were compared with 11 (42%) involved in 76 (53.1%) motorcycle accidents (P = .31). More severe injuries resulting in the majority of deaths were associated with alcohol intoxication (P < .0001). Fourteen (54%) of the deaths were pedestrians, eight of whom were selling wares on the roadside; six were crossing roads that had no traffic signs or traffic control. Of the eight vehicle passengers who died, only two wore seat belts or used pediatric car seats, with no statistical significance compared to those who did not use seat belts or car seats (P = .37). Four of 14 front seat passengers and four of 32 rear seat passengers died (P = .222). Of motorcycle passengers, none of those who wore protective crash helmets died, while four died who were not wearing helmets. Passers-by and sympathizers served as rescuers provided emergency treatment, and presented the victims between one hour and four days after the accidents. Head injury in 14 (54%) cases was the most common cause of death.ConclusionPediatric RTA deaths in this study were due mainly to preventable causes. There is a need to stress road safety education to children, drivers, the general public and government policy formulators, and to adopt RTA preventive measures in this region of Nigeria.Osifo OD, Osagie TO, Iribhogbe PE. Pediatric road traffic accident deaths presenting to a Nigerian referral center. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2012;27(2):1-6.
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Kovacevic, Jelena, Maja Miskulin, Dunja Degmecic, Aleksandar Vcev, Dinko Leovic, Vladimir Sisljagic, Ivana Simic, Hrvoje Palenkic, Ivan Vcev, and Ivan Miskulin. "Predictors of Mental Health Outcomes in Road Traffic Accident Survivors." Journal of Clinical Medicine 9, no. 2 (January 22, 2020): 309. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9020309.
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Mental health outcomes of road traffic accidents (RTAs) are always investigated in assessments of those involved. The aim of this study was to investigate the psychological consequences and associated factors in all RTA survivors, irrelevant of their injury status. A cohort of 155 people was assessed one month after experiencing a RTA using self-reported measures for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety. Associations between mental health outcomes and sociodemographic factors, pre-RTA health status, injury-related factors, and RTA details were analyzed. RTA survivors reported substantial rates of PTSD (32.3%) and depression (17.4%) symptoms, and low rates of anxiety (5.8%). Symptoms of depression were associated with below-average self-perceived economic status, irreligiousness, medication use, psychiatric medication use, and injury-related factors. PTSD symptoms were associated with female gender, below-average self-perceived economic status, previous psychiatric illness, medication use, psychiatric medication use, not being at fault in the relevant RTA, claiming compensation, and injury-related factors. Anxiety symptoms were associated with previous chronic or psychiatric illness, previous permanent pain, psychiatric medication use, and self-perceived threat to life, but not with sustaining injury. Along with the evaluation and treatment of RTA injuries, health care providers should evaluate the pre-RTA health status of all RTA victims. Psychological support to those at risk may prevent psychological disorders after RTAs.
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Lilhare, Subham, and Manish Swarnkar. "A study of injury characteristics in road traffic accidents by different road user category." International Surgery Journal 4, no. 1 (December 13, 2016): 395. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20164477.
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Background:Trauma is one of the oldest subjects in medical science because it appeared just as early as human being came to the earth. At the same time trauma is also a novel subject, because trauma has been strikingly increasing with the high-speed development of economical construction, traffic transport and sharp increase of vehicles in number. Therefore, trauma is called the twin brother of the modem civilization. Accidents occur not only due to ignorance but also due to carelessness, thoughtlessness and over confidence. Human, vehicular and environmental factors play role before, during and after a road traffic accidents (RTA). Road traffic injuries are partially predictable and hence preventable.Methods: this was prospective observational study in which all cases of road traffic accident victims admitted to the hospital (AVBRH) between July 2014 to September 2016, were analyzed statistically with respect to their demographic profile, injury characteristics and outcome.Results:This study showed that motorcyclists were predominantly affected (77.3%) in RTA. Males (80.67%) in the working age group 21-40 years (64.66%) were most commonly affected leading to huge economic losses to their families. Majority RTA took place between 4pm to 12am (57.33 %), on Sundays and Saturday (41.66%) and during summer season (52.67%). Extremity injury (67%) was the most common injury followed by craniocerebral injuries (58.33%). Maximum mortality was seen in LMV/HMV occupants (25%).Conclusions:Road traffic accidents are preventable. Strict traffic laws and penalties have to be imposed to curb this ever growing menace.
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Farhangi, Farbod, Abolghasem Sadeghi-Niaraki, Seyed Vahid Razavi-Termeh, and Soo-Mi Choi. "Evaluation of Tree-Based Machine Learning Algorithms for Accident Risk Mapping Caused by Driver Lack of Alertness at a National Scale." Sustainability 13, no. 18 (September 14, 2021): 10239. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131810239.
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Drivers’ lack of alertness is one of the main reasons for fatal road traffic accidents (RTA) in Iran. Accident-risk mapping with machine learning algorithms in the geographic information system (GIS) platform is a suitable approach for investigating the occurrence risk of these accidents by analyzing the role of effective factors. This approach helps to identify the high-risk areas even in unnoticed and remote places and prioritizes accident-prone locations. This paper aimed to evaluate tuned machine learning algorithms of bagged decision trees (BDTs), extra trees (ETs), and random forest (RF) in accident-risk mapping caused by drivers’ lack of alertness (due to drowsiness, fatigue, and reduced attention) at a national scale of Iran roads. Accident points and eight effective criteria, namely distance to the city, distance to the gas station, land use/cover, road structure, road type, time of day, traffic direction, and slope, were applied in modeling, using GIS. The time factor was utilized to represent drivers’ varied alertness levels. The accident dataset included 4399 RTA records from March 2017 to March 2019. The performance of all models was cross-validated with five-folds and tree metrics of mean absolute error, mean squared error, and area under the curve of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC-AUC). The results of cross-validation showed that BDT and RF performance with an AUC of 0.846 were slightly more accurate than ET with an AUC of 0.827. The importance of modeling features was assessed by using the Gini index, and the results revealed that the road type, distance to the city, distance to the gas station, slope, and time of day were the most important, while land use/cover, traffic direction, and road structure were the least important. The proposed approach can be improved by applying the traffic volume in modeling and helps decision-makers take necessary actions by identifying important factors on road safety.
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Kushwaha, Anu, and Pankaj Singh. "The Pattern of Injury from Road Traffic Accident Presenting at Emergency Department of Kathmandu Medical College." Journal of Nepal Health Research Council 17, no. 2 (August 4, 2019): 206–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.33314/jnhrc.v0i0.1835.
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Background: Road traffic accidents are the major public health problem. The objective of the study was to analyze road traffic accidents presenting in Kathmandu Medical College Emergency Department.Methods: The data from all consecutive road traffic accident cases brought to Emergency Department Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital were collected from 2018 Jan-2018 June. Factors like age of the patients, time of the accident, influence of illicit substances and type of injury were documented.Results: Males (74) were common victims than the females (26). Eldest patient was 65 years of the age while youngest patient was 4 years. Most common type of injury was fracture in male 28 (37%)and laceration in females8 (38%). Alcohol intoxication was evident by positive alcohol smell test in 10 (13.6%) males and 6(23%) females. Conclusions: Road traffic accidents are major health concern in Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital and preventive measures should be considered to reduce such health burden. Keywords: Alcohol; Injury;Pattern; RTA.
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Ahmad, Arif, Khandaker Hossain, and Mallik Hossain. "Identification of Urban Traffic Accident Hotspot Zones Using GIS: A Case Study of Dhaka Metropolitan Area." Journal of Geographical Studies 3, no. 1 (April 4, 2020): 36–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.21523/gcj5.19030104.
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The issue of traffic safety becomes increasingly prominent and has attracted widespread attention from researchers and policy makers. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the most vulnerable city both in terms of total number of accidents and accident rates. GIS technology has been widely applied to urban traffic information and safety management. This paper presents a geospatial analysis to identify the road traffic accident (RTA) hotspot zones in Dhaka Metropolitan Area (DMA). ‘Spatial analysis’ and ‘spatial statistics tools’ are used to examine spatial patterns of accident data. A systematic comparison of identified hotspot zones using Local Moran’s-I Statistic, Getis-Ord Gi* statistic and Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) carried out to examine spatial patterns of high cluster of traffic accidents. These analyses revealed a total 22 hotspot zones in DMA during the years 2010-2012. This kind of research would help generating new parameters for reducing road traffic accidents in Dhaka Metropolitan Area.
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Woldu, Awtachew Berhe, Abraham Aregay Desta, and Tewolde Wubayehu Woldearegay. "Magnitude and determinants of road traffic accidents in Northern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study." BMJ Open 10, no. 2 (February 2020): e034133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034133.
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ObjectiveThis study aimed to assess the magnitude and determinants of road traffic accidents (RTAs) in Mekelle city, Northern Ethiopia.MethodsA cross-sectional study was done using a simple random sampling technique.SettingThe study was done in Mekelle city from February to June 2015.ParticipantsThe study was done among drivers settled in Mekelle city.Main outcome measuresThe main outcome measure was occurrence of RTA within 2 years. A binary logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with RTA.ResultsThe magnitude of RTA was found to be 23.17%. According to the drivers’ perceived cause of the accident, 22 (38.60%) of the accident was due to violation of traffic rules and regulations. The majority of the victims were pedestrians, 19 (33.33%). Drivers who were driving a governmental vehicle were 4.16 (adjusted OR (AOR) 4.16; 95% CI 1.48 to 11.70) times more likely to have RTA compared with those who drive private vehicles. Drivers who used alcohol were 2.29 (AOR 2.29; 95% CI 1.08 to 4.85) times more likely to have RTA compared with those drivers who did not consume alcohol.ConclusionMagnitude of reported road traffic accident was high. Violation of traffic laws, lack of vehicle maintenance and lack of general safety awareness on pedestrians were the dominant reported causes of RTAs. Driving a governmental vehicle and alcohol consumption were the factors associated with RTA. Monitoring blood alcohol level of drivers and regular awareness to the drivers should be in place. Holistic study should be done to identify the causes of RTAs.
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Poudel, Sudhan, Sudarshan Dhungana, and Raksha Dahal. "Pattern and Cause of Road Traffic Accidents in Morang District." Journal of Nepal Health Research Council 19, no. 1 (April 23, 2021): 87–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.33314/jnhrc.v19i1.2750.
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Background: Road traffic accidents is growing continuously as a global burden and would be a leading cause of death in developing countries. The global burden of road traffic accidents continues to grow and promises to overtake tropical diseases as leading causes of death in the developing world. This study aimed to study the pattern and causes of road traffic accidents in Morang district.Methods: Record based descriptive cross-sectional study was used by reviewing all registered RTA cases of the District Traffic Police Office, Morang during fiscal year 2074/75 (Shrawan 2074 to Ashad 2075). 501 road traffic accident cases were found in the record and used for the study. The data was analysed using SPSS v 16 and presented in normal frequency tables and crosstables.Results: Out of 501 accidents 32.2% occurred Friday and Saturday. In the evening time, most of the accidents occurred. In highways, 53.5% of accident cases occurred. 82% of the accidents occurred in blacktop road. Two-wheelers are mostly involved in accident cases (77%). Negligence (55.7%) and over-speed (36.5%) were the major reasons for accidents. In 33% of cases, accidents occurred involving pedestrians and cyclists. 80% of the drivers are below 40 years; similarly 80% of the victims are also below 40 years. Among victims who died 84.1% were male and among injured 73.3% were males.Conclusions: Weekends, evening, highways and two wheelers are more accident prone time, place and vehicles respectively. Overspeed and negligence of driver tends to major cause of accidents and majority of victims are the young bike riders and pedestrians. Keywords: Burden; causes; road traffic accidents; pattern
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Huang, Ling, Krishna P. Adhikary, Bishnu P. Choulagai, Nanping Wang, Amod K. Poudyal, and Sharad R. Onta. "Road Traffic Accident and its Characteristics in Kathmandu Valley." Journal of Nepal Medical Association 55, no. 203 (September 30, 2016): 01–06. http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.2829.
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Introduction: Road traffic accident is alarming in Nepal. The objective of this research is to find out the characteristics of RTA in central part of Nepal.Methods: A prospective descriptive study was taken from 1 August 2014 to 31 July 2015. Data were collected from postmortem department and nine hospitals in Kathmandu Valley. Inventory sheets with targeted variables for secondary sources were created.Results: A total of 3461 morbidity cases from hospitals and 265 mortality cases from postmortem department were included in this study. The ratio of male victim to female was 2.3:1. Around 75% of victims were between 15-49 years old. Pedestrians were the most vulnerable (33%) followed by riders of motorized 2-3 wheelers. Two wheeler motorized vehicles were most frequently (67.2%)involved in RTAs. More RTA occurred on daytime, Saturdays, July and November. Around half of the victims did not arrive in hospitals in one hour. The most common injury type was soft tissue injury (37.6%), followed by open wound (20.9%), fracture (18%) and traumatic brain injuries (12.7%).Conclusions: According to the characteristic of RTA found in this study, following preventive measures are recommended Helmet was necessary for two wheeled backseat riders. Road safety education towards age group of 15-49 was compulsory. Precaution should neither be omitted regarding road safety on weekends, holidays, nor in rainy and festival season. Future studies could be focused on estimation of burden of disease caused by RTA and its determinants in Nepal.Keywords: injury; Nepal; road traffic accident; road safety. | PubMed
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Dutta, Sirshak, Debasis Sarkar, and Nazrul Mallick. "A Study on the Socio-Demographic Profiles of Road Traffic Accident Cases Attending a Peripheral Tertiary Care Medical College Hospital of West Bengal." Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare 8, no. 15 (April 12, 2021): 945–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.18410/jebmh/2021/183.
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BACKGROUND A road traffic accident (RTA) is any injury due to crashes originating from, terminating with or involving a vehicle partially or fully on a public road. Increased mechanisation and improved socio-economic condition of the people in developing countries like India leads to increased use of motor vehicles, disproportionate to the increase in the number of roads. We wanted to assess the socio-demographic profile of road traffic accident victims and study the antecedent factors influencing the road traffic accidents. METHODS This is an institution based descriptive, cross-sectional study, conducted among 114 patients. RESULTS Maximum numbers of the victims, 33.32 % (N = 38) were in the age group of 21-30 years followed by 26.31 % (N =30) in the age group of up to 20 years, mean age of the victims was 29.53 ± 13.85. Majority of the victims, 70.05 % (N = 80) were on motorcycles, and 26.32 % (N =30) of the victims were alcoholic at the time of accident. Majority of the victims, 92.86 % (78 out of 84), among the motor-cycle riders, four-wheeler drivers, and front seat passengers had not used any safety measures at the time of accident. CONCLUSIONS Road traffic accidents emerged as the major epidemic of non-communicable disease, holding a major share of mortality and morbidity data all over the world, majorly among the young productive portion of the population. It was evident from the study that the majority of victims were young adults, from lower socioeconomic background, and rural residents. So, lack of proper information and consciousness regarding road safety rules and measures are definitely the important aetiology behind this epidemic. Almost two third of the cases were among the bikers in the present study, which is pointing out the need of focusing on the road safety rules related to bikers by the road traffic authority. KEYWORDS Alcoholic Intoxication, Motor Vehicle, Road Traffic Accidents, Tertiary Care Centre
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Pohrel, Ava Upadhyay, A. Acharya, and A. Yadav. "Pattern of Morbidity and Mortality due to Road Traffic Accident at College of Medical Sciences, Chitwan, Nepal." Journal of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences 1, no. 2 (December 20, 2018): 42–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jbpkihs.v1i2.22077.
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Background: Road traffic accident (RTA) which is recognized as a public health problem is one of the fastest growing epidemics in the South-East Asian Region. Every hour, 40 people in the region die as a result of collision.
Objectives: To estimate the morbidity and mortality of RTA victims and also to assess the pattern of the RTAs at College of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Bharatpur, Chitwan.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study including 100 RTA victims who attended College of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Bharatpur during 2013.
Results: Majority of RTA victims were male (76%) and in the age group between 20 and 39 years (48%). Maximum numbers of accidents occurred between 12 noon to 12 midnight (79%). More accident occurred on Friday (23%). Most of the RTAs occurred on motor bike (42.0%) and the most common nature of accident was through collision of the vehicle and fall/slide of moving vehicle (56.0%). Abrasion was the most common injury occurred during the RTA (91%). Almost two-thirds of the victims had laceration, nearly half had swelling and 26% had fractures. Four percentages of victims had fatality. Bad condition of road (37.0%) and speedy driving (23.0%) were the leading causes of RTA. There were 15.0% of victims who were under the influence of alcohol in RTA.
Conclusion: There was high number of male victims with motorbike as the major contributor. Abrasion, laceration and fatality were found. Bad condition of road, speed driving and alcohol habit during driving were found to be the leading causes of RTA.
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M., Manikandan, Vishnu Prasad R., Amit Kumar Mishra, Rajesh Kumar Konduru, and Newtonraj A. "Forecasting road traffic accident deaths in India using seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average model." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 5, no. 9 (August 24, 2018): 3962. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20183579.
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Background: As per World Health Organization (WHO) report 1.24 million people die each year as a result of road traffic accidents (RTA) globally. A vast majority of 20-50 million people suffer from non-fatal injuries, many of them ultimately end in disability. Forecasting RTA deaths could help in planning the intervention at the right time in an effective way.Methods: An attempt was made to forecast the RTA deaths in India with seasonal auto regressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model. ARIMA model is one of the common methods which are used for forecasting variables as the method is very easy and requires only long time series data. The method of selection of appropriate ARIMA model has been explained in detail. Month wise RTA deaths for previous years data was collected from Govt. of India website. Data for 12 years (2001 to 2012) was extracted and appropriate ARIMA model was selected. Using the validated ARIMA model the RTA deaths are forecasted for 8 years (2013-2020).Results: The appropriate SARIMA (1,0,0) (2,1,0) 12 model was selected based on minimal AIC and BIC values. The forecasted RTA deaths show increasing trend overtime.Conclusions: There is an increasing trend in the forecasted numbers of road traffic accidental deaths and it also shows seasonality of RTA deaths with more number of accidents during the month of April and May in every years. It is recommended that the policy makers and transport authority should pay more attention to road traffic accidents and plan some effective intervention to reduce the burden of RTA deaths.
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Chaudhary, Archana, and Harihar Wasti. "Patterns and Severity of Injuries in Patients Following Road Traffic Accidents – A Medicolegal Aspects." Eastern Green Neurosurgery 2, no. 1 (January 29, 2020): 13–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/egn.v2i1.27455.
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Background and purpose: Road traffic accident (RTA) is the major cause of the morbidity and mortality throughout the world and the incidence is still very high in developed and developing countries. With the objective to see the pattern and severity of the injury following RTA from the medico legal point of view, this study was design in a tertiary care centre at far eastern part of Nepal.
Material and method: This is a prospective analytical study with non- probability consecutive sampling of road traffic accidents cases presented in the emergency department during period of 6 months. Type of study: Prospective Analytical study.
Result: There were total 210 cases of road traffic accidents with mean age of 31.8 (SD 15.7) years where majority were at 20-29 years of age group and males were the majority. Majority of the cases had injuries to the extremities followed by head. Grievous injury and life threatening injuries were also a common finding in this study.
Conclusion: Road traffic accidents are more common among male, bike/scooter rider and 22-29 years of age group. Majority of the injury were fracture/dislocation of extremities and intracranial injuries. As per the medicolegal aspect, grievous and life threatening injuries were common findings among patients with road traffic accidents.
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Bhat, Manzoor Ahmad, and Qazi Mohammad Iqbal. "Injury pattern and outcome of road traffic accidents victims attending major referral institutions of the Kashmir valley." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 7, no. 3 (February 27, 2020): 958. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20200948.
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Background: Road traffic accidents (RTAs) have emerged as a major global public health problem of this century. WHO global burden of disease study, shows it as the 10th leading cause of death in South-East Asia. In India, according to WHO, road traffic accident is the 6th leading cause of death. The present study aims to assess the magnitude and injury pattern of RTA victims attending three major referral institution of the Kashmir valley.Methods: This prospective observational study was conducted for a period of one year in three major referral institutions of Kashmir valley. Burden of RTA victims was studied from hospital records. For studying detailed injury patterns, the accident victims fulfilling the inclusion criteria and admitted in the wards of these hospitals formed the main study group.Results: RTAs constituted 3% of the total admissions. Most (82.7%) of the studied victims were males. Most (40.3%) of the RTA victims were pedestrians. Head on collision was the most common type of accident (62.9%). 97.6% victims were grievously hurt and head (59.9%) was the most affected part of the body. 88.3% of RTA victims survived while 11.7% died.Conclusions: Young males are the predominant victims of RTAs and head on collision (63%) remains the commonest type of accident. Almost all (97.6%) RTA victims were grievously hurt with 60% having head injuries followed by lower limbs 59.4% and upper limbs 26.8% injuries and 47% victims had multiple injuries.
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Vipul N, Ambade, B. Sirsat Kunal, and Manu Sharma. "Pattern of injuries in different types of victims of road traffic accident in central India: A comparative study." Journal of Forensic Science and Research 5, no. 1 (February 26, 2021): 007–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.29328/journal.jfsr.1001021.
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Death due to road traffic accident (RTA) was one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in India. In the present cross-sectional study, only the victim using two-wheelers, four-wheelers, and pedestrians were included for comparison to determine the pattern of injuries in these victims of the road traffic accident. There was a predominance of males in all three types of victims of RTA with a peak age of incidence seen in 21-30 years in two-wheeler victims, 41-50 years in four-wheeler victims, and 51-60 years in pedestrian victims. Four-wheeler (HMV/LMV) was the commonest type of offending vehicle involved in all types of victims with collision/ dash as the commonest manner of an accident. Head was the commonest region involved in pedestrian and two-wheeler victims as compared to the thorax in four-wheeler victims of accidents. Abrasion was the commonest surface injury in two-wheeler victims and pedestrians. The laceration was more common in two-wheeler victims as compared to crushed injury in pedestrian victims of road traffic accidents. The brain was the commonest organ involved in two-wheeler and pedestrian as compared to lungs in four-wheeler victims. The liver and spleen were more commonly involved in two-wheeler victims as compared to kidneys and bladder in pedestrian
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Omar Fadili, Yassir El Andaloussi, and Mustapha Fadili. "Traumatic injuries due to road traffic accidents (RTA) involving motorized tricycles in Morocco." International Journal of Science and Research Archive 3, no. 1 (July 30, 2021): 037–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/ijsra.2021.3.1.0102.
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Road Traffic Accident (RTA) are a major health problem in Morocco. Those involving rear cargo tricycles for passenger transport or mixed transport use require special attention. An 18-month continuous retrospective study was performed. It included all victims of RTA involving at least one tricycle, admitted to emergency department with a documented traumatic injury. The data collected was analyzed by statistical software (SPSS v18.0). The aim of this study was to assess the epidemiological, lesional and therapeutic characteristics of stroke’s victims involving tricycles in the region of Grand Casablanca in Morocco. It also highlights the frequency and severity of injuries related to motorized tricycles accidents and the interest of regulatory enforcement to reduce the incidence of these accidents.
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ZahranEl-Said, M. M., Tan Soon Jiann, Nurul Amirah ’Atiqah Binti Mohamad ’Asri Putra, Eng Hie Angel Tan, Yok Hoe Yap, and Ena Kartina Abdul Rahman. "Evaluation of various GIS-based methods for the analysis of road traffic accident hotspot." MATEC Web of Conferences 258 (2019): 03008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201925803008.
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In order to establish objective criteria for road traffic accident (RTA) hotspots, this paper examines the application of three different hotspot analysis methods to both identify and rank the RTA hotspots. The three methods selected are the network Kernel Density Estimation (KDE+) method, the Getis-Ord GI* method, and a recently proposed risk-based method that accounts for RTA frequency, severity and socioeconomic costs - STAA method. The study road, Jalan Tutong, is a major dual-carriageway connecting major residential and commercial areas from the west of Brunei-Muara district and beyond to the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan. The RTA data consists of cases reported to the police during a 5-year period from 2012 to 2016. The RTA data were digitised and prepared, before being imported into ESRI ArcGIS 10.2 software for analysis using each of these methods. The outcomes, particularly the location, extent and priority of the RTA hotspots, are subsequently compared to results from road safety audits, in order to determine the relative merits and drawbacks of each method. The findings from the comparative study would be useful to recommend the most suitable method to identify and rank the RTA hotspots for the study road.
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Ahmad, Mushtaq, Farial Naima Rahman, Md Zubaidur Rahman, and Prodip Biswas. "Road traffic injury among pedestrians: an emerging research focus in Bangladesh." KYAMC Journal 9, no. 1 (May 9, 2018): 11–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/kyamcj.v9i1.36598.
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Background: Road traffic accidents (RTA) are responsible for greatest number of injuries and fatalities world wide by killing around 1.2 million people each year and injuring 50 million. Pedestrians are the most common victims of RTAs.Objectives: This study has been done to find out the epidemiological factors, socio demographic characteristics and the clinical injury pattern among pedestrians injured by Road Traffic Accidents in Dhaka City.Materials & Methods: This descriptive cross sectional study done from December 2015 to September 2016 at three tertiary level referral hospital in Dhaka. One hundred fifty two (pedestrians) were selected purposively as research sample with 95% confidence level and 5% confidence interval. The primary data was collected from the patients who were discharged from hospital by face to face exit interview using a semi-structured questionnaire.Results: Among 152 pedestrian victims interviewed; 88(58%) were male. Maximum accidents occurred at daytime 63 (41.45 %), and on city main roads 68 (44 %). Highest number of accidents were caused by buses 44 (36.09 %) and highest incidence of RTA 60(39.47%) was observed among the age group 21 to 30 yrs. Most of the victims 129( 84.85%) were knocked down by the vehicles while crossing the roads (hit and run injury), 114(75.00%) were from earning group below 15,000 taka per month, 121(79.61%) never use foot over bridge, 78(51.32)% were using mobile phone while crossing the road. 152(100%) victims had multiple abrasion and bruise, 94(61.84%) had lacerations, 64(42.10%) had fracture of upper limb bones, 53(34.87%) had fracture of lower limb bones and 53(34.87%) had haematoma in soft tissue over skull.Conclusion: Road accident and its severity can be prevented by strict application of traffic rules , motivation of public and proper training of drivers.KYAMC Journal Vol. 9, No.-1, April 2018, Page 11-15
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Ahmad, Mushtaq, Farial Naima Rahman, Mohammad Ali, and Md Abdus Samad Al Azad. "Road Traffic Injury among Pedestrians in Dhaka City." Journal of Armed Forces Medical College, Bangladesh 12, no. 1 (January 23, 2016): 3–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jafmc.v12i1.39948.
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Introduction: Road traffic accident (RTA) is a growing public health problem worldwide. It is responsible for greatest number of injuries and fatalities by killing around 1.2 million people each year and injuring 50 million who occupy 30-70% of orthopedic beds in developing countries hospitals. Pedestrians are the most common victims of RTAs.
Objective: To find out the epidemiological factors and pattern of road traffic injury among pedestrians admitted at selected tertiary level referral hospitals in Dhaka City for getting necessary treatment.
Materials and Methods: This descriptive type of cross sectional study was done during December 2015 to June 2016 at four tertiary level referral hospitals in Dhaka. A total of 197 pedestrian patients were selected by purposive and convenient method of sampling. The primary data was collected from the patients after their discharge from hospital by face to face Exit interview using a pre tested semistructured questionnaire.
Results: Among 197 pedestrian victims interviewed; 129(65.48%) were male and 68(34.52%) female. Maximum accidents took place on city main roads 93(47.21%), followed by internal roads 93(47.21%), maximum accidents occurred at day time 87(44.16%), followed by evening 49(24.87%). Regarding vehicles, highest number of accidents were caused by buses 63(31.97%), followed by mini bus 42(21.32%). Highest incidence of injuries was observed among the age group 21 to 30 yrs 81(41.12%), 168( 85.27%) reported that they had been knocked down by the vehicles while crossing the roads (hit and run injury), 24(12.18%) were injured by motor cycles moving at a speed illegally on the footpath, 56(28.42%) people fall on ground due to faulty roads and potholes, open manhole cover followed by vehicle’s accident. Majority of victims 136(69.03%) were from earning group below 15,000 taka per month, most of the victims 155(78.68%) never used foot over bridge,168(85.27%) person faced difficulty while walking through footpath due to piling of construction materials, selling items of neighboring shops etc, 127(64.47)% were using mobile phone while crossing the road or walking through it. All the research samples had multiple abrasion and bruise all over the body, 164(83.25%) had lacerations in different body area, 85(43.14%)%) had fracture of upper limb bones, 69(35.03%)had fracture of lower limb bones .
Conclusion: The incidence and severity of injury of road accident can be prevented by motivation of public, strict application of traffic rules and proper training of drivers. More scientific research on road traffic injury are needed in future.
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G. P., Mallikarjuna, Latha G. S., Veeresh Babu D. V., and Thejraj H. K. "Prevalence of road traffic accident in children: retrospective study in tertiary centre." International Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics 4, no. 2 (February 22, 2017): 477. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20170692.
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Background: Road traffic accidents (RTA) are the leading cause of unnatural deaths in the world and a major burden on the world’s economy. The aim was to study the prevalence of road traffic accident among children.Methods: It is a retrospective cross sectional study. Data collected from the hospital records in PICU. Children studied are either admitted directly for road traffic accident or referred to our centre for complicated injuries. children of 1 to 18 years are studied, details of address, locality (either rural, urban) road safety precautions used, mode of injury, type of vehicle, type of injury, number of passengers, complications, outcome of injury are collected and entered in prescribed proforma, and impact of each one is analysed and magnitude is studied. Study period was from June 2014 to June 2016.Results: This study shows that road traffic accident prevalence is more in 15-18 year age group (31%), and males are affected more commonly (79.5%), among these majority of children were from rural area (73%), more common type of injury were complicated injuries (85.1%). Children travelling in 2 wheelers were affected more (74.9%). Results analysed with age of victims and type of injury, p value <0.05 is considered significant.Conclusions: To bring the mortality rate down, children especially with rural background should be made aware about the importance of strict compliance to traffic rules and regulations. Government need to start implementing traffic rules awareness programme among rural people.
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SULEHRI, MUHAMMAD ANWAR, and ALTAF PERVEZ QASIM. "HIGH VAGINAL SWABS;." Professional Medical Journal 19, no. 02 (February 22, 2018): 180–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.29309/tpmj/2012.19.02.1992.
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Objectives: To study the road traffic accident (RTA) fatalities in Faisalabad, in relation to vulnerability of victims, their sociodemographic characteristics and to identify the risk factors of fatal RTAs. Study Design: A descriptive retrospective study. Setting: PostMortem Unit, Allied Hospital, Punjab Medical College (PMC) Faisalabad. Period: From January to December, 2006. Materials & Methods:Eighty-five dead bodies of fatal RTAs brought for Medico legal autopsies, to Allied Hospital, (PMC) Faisalabad, during calendar year 2006 wereincluded in study for Post Mortem Examination. Results: In this study maximum cases of road traffic accident were among males (91%), male tofemale ratio was approximately 9:1. Maximum incidence of RTA was in the age range of 21 to 50 years comprising 55.29% and commonest agegroup involved was 21-30 years accounted for (21.18%). Most common victims were pedestrians 41.18% followed by motorcyclists 29.41%and cyclists 16.47%. Incidence was more common in the pedestrian. Conclusions: Road traffic accident is the leading cause of deaths anddisabilities worldwide and it is needed to prevent them. Road traffic crashes are predictable and therefore preventable. In order to combat theproblem, there is a need for close coordination and collaboration, using a holistic and integrated approach, across many sectors and manydisciplines.
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Hatamabadi, H., H. Soori, M. Hadadi, and R. Vafaii. "(A151) The Situation of Reporting Road Traffic Accidents Resulting In Injury and Death in a Suburban Roadway: A Cohort Study." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 26, S1 (May 2011): s52—s53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x11001683.
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IntroductionThe prerequisite of improving the situation of traffic accidents and injury prevention is to set up a “Road Traffic Accident and Victim Information System (RTAVIS)” which does not exist in Iran. The objective of this study was to compare the three major sources information including police, emergency medical service and hospitals to show the necessity of integrated road traffic injury surveillance system.MethodThis prospective cohort study has been done by pursuing each road traffic accident (RTA) case within 30 days of its occurrence by a draft questionnaire and data pooling from participating sources during one year.ResultsIn this study, after aggregating/ pooling the data from all organizations, it was finally revealed that during one year 254 injury crashes happened in Tehran–Abali road (with 45 Kilometer distance) in which 434 people were injured or died. Out of these injury crashes, Police and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) stated to be unaware of 67 and 51 cases, respectively. In other words, Police, pre- hospital emergency service and hospital have reported 56.2% 82.9% and 76.4% of the entire number of injuries or deaths respectively.ConclusionNone of the information sources including police, EMS and health care facilities has complete information about injuries and deaths caused by traffic accidents. It seems that formulating and implementing a centralized and multidisciplinary data collection system of national traffic accidents with the collaboration of police, Ministry of health and medical education (EMS and medical centers), forensic medicine, and Iranian Red Crescent is necessary.
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T., Muthukumar, Zile Singh, Vishnu Prasad R., Abel K. Samuel, and Raja T. K. "An epidemiological study of road traffic accidents among patients admitted in a tertiary care hospital in Puducherry." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 5, no. 8 (July 23, 2018): 3362. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20183062.
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Background: Road traffic accidents (RTA) are the only public health problem for which society and decision makers still accept death and disability among young people on a large scale. This study was undertaken to determine the various epidemiological factors influencing RTA with a view to suggest appropriate remedial measures for prevention of accidents.Methods: A hospital based prospective observational study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital in Puducherry. All the patients admitted in the hospital due to RTA from Jan to Dec 2014 were interviewed by using a pre-tested and pre-designed questionnaire. Data was entered in MS Excel and analysed using SPSS version 21.0. Institute ethics committee clearance was obtained.Results: Among 541 participants, 50% of the victims were in the productive age group of 20-40 yrs. The approximate speed of majority of the vehicles (55.6%) at the time of accident was 40-80 km/hr. Among the accident victims, 85.8% of the two wheeler riders did not use helmet and 70.9% of the car drivers did not wear seat belt at the time of accident. Around 39% of the drivers were under the influence of alcohol at the time of accident. Mobile phone is the major cause of distraction (51.9%) at the time of accident.Conclusions: Based on this study it is evident that prevention and control of most of the modifiable factors can bring about a change in the statistics that would ensure our future to be safer.
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P., Shakeer Kahn, Bayapa Reddy N., Ashok Kumar Reddy K., and Ravi Prabhu G. "Study on risk factors of road traffic accident victims attending a tertiary care hospital at Tirupati." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 4, no. 5 (April 24, 2017): 1708. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20171789.
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Background: Road traffic accidents stand as one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity across the globe. Increase in the number of motor vehicles, poor enforcement of traffic safety regulations, inadequacy of health infrastructure, and poor transport facilities makes the situation still worse. The objective of the study is to know the role of victims and various risk factors related to RTA. To determine the association of risk factors with type of injury and to know the pre-existing medical disorders in RTA victims.Methods: A hospital based, cross sectional study with victims of road traffic accidents admitted in S.V.R.R. Government General Hospital, Tirupati, as study subjects was done during June 2013 to May 2014 for one year where 820 victims of road traffic accidents were interviewed after taking prior consent using a predesigned questionnaire.Results: Most of the victims were drivers (48.5%) followed by passengers (31.7%) and pedestrian (19.8%). No two wheeler driver was wearing helmet. 74% of the four wheeler occupants were not using seat belts. Among drivers and pedestrians, 29.2% were under the influence of alcohol and 12.7% were listening to music. 55.8% of the passengers felt that their vehicle was going with over speed. 17.1% & 11.0% of the participants had history of hypertension and diabetes.Conclusions: There is a need to develop integrated surveillance system to identify the road traffic injury burden and the causal/risk factors. Enforcement of stringent road traffic laws to bring down the burden of road traffic accidents.
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P., Shakeer Kahn, Bayapa Reddy N., Chandrasekhar C., R. Altaf Hussain, and K. Reddy Jawahar Basha. "A study on injuries of road traffic accident victims attending a tertiary care hospital, Tirupathi." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 5, no. 6 (May 22, 2018): 2357. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20182158.
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Background: Rapid motorization bought a boon along with the curse of road traffic accidents toll. Injuries and deaths due to road traffic accidents (RTA) are one of the major public health problems across the globe especially in developing countries due to lack of comprehensive legislative measures. It will have immeasurable impact on the families affected by RTAs.Methods: A hospital based, cross sectional study with victims of road traffic accidents admitted in S.V.R.R. Government General Hospital, Tirupathi, as study subjects was done during June 2013 to May 2014 for one year where 820 victims of road traffic accidents were interviewed after taking prior consent using a predesigned questionnaire.Results: External injury was seen in almost all cases (97.9%) and 61.5% suffered grievous injury. Laceration, fractures and abrasion are the most common types of injuries found. Regarding anatomical sites, head injury is the commonest (68.8%). Majority of the victims suffered grievous injury during 6AM to 12 PM (66.2%). The proportion of grievous injury was most commonly found in victims who were hit by Unknown vehicle (84.6%).Conclusions: Road side medical assistance by their timely action can prevent the toll of RTA fatalities and disabilities. Studies on injuries help in developing improved personal protective gear and safety measures inside the vehicles through novel engineering technology.
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Chowdhury, ASMJ, MS Alam, SK Biswas, RK Saha, AR Mondal, MM Rahman, and MA Khair. "Road Traffic Accidents by 'Nasimon' and 'Karimon'-A Study in Faridpur." Faridpur Medical College Journal 7, no. 1 (April 8, 2012): 6–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/fmcj.v7i1.10289.
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Road traffic accidents in Bangladesh have been rapidly increasing with huge mortality through road accidents each year. There are many causes of road accidents in recent years; one important cause is running of locally made improvised three wheelers (flat bed tricycle) in the urban areas and also on the highways, popularly known as 'Nasimon' and 'Karimon'. This prospective study was carried out in Faridpur Medical College Hospital from January through June 2011, to study the accident patients caused by 'Nasimon' and 'Karimon'. Fifty six (12%) patients were of RTA by 'Nasimon' and 'Karimon' out of a total of 468 patients admitted into our hospital during this period. Most patients (41, 73.21%) were male, highest accidents (24, 42.86%) were observed among 21-30 years age group and most victims (33, 58.93%) were belonged to low socioeconomic status. Commonest (31, 55.36%) victims were passengers of 'Nasimon' and 'Karimon' while maximum number of accidents (46, 82.14%) took place in the urban areas and on the highways. Injury pattern of victims were similar to that found in any other road accident patients. These three wheelers 'Nasimon' and 'Karimon' are run in violating of Bangladesh Motor Vehicles Act (1983) as they are totally unfit for plying on the highways. Strict surveillance against these illegal and risky vehicles on the highways and in the urban areas by law enforcing agencies is required as a measure to reduce the burden of road accidents in our country.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/fmcj.v7i1.10289Faridpur Med. Coll. J. 2012;7(1): 06-09
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Joni, Hasan H., Ali Majeed Al-Dahawi, and Omar Jabbar Al-Tamimi. "Analysis of Road Accidents in Baghdad City." Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences 26, no. 1 (March 31, 2019): 136–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.33261/jaaru.2019.26.1.018.
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Road traffic accidents (RTAs) have turned out to be a huge global public health and development problem causing enormous economic and social costs. Therefore RTA has become a major concern and analyzing accident data has been an important look out to the analysts in order to find the major factors related to the accidents, and to predict the future road accidents in order to mitigate and/or eliminate them in the future.The study revealed that the main contributing factor is the human. The predominant type of crashes was run over with 53% of the total crashes.Approximately, 53% of crashes occurred on major roads, 58% of crashed occurred during day time, drivers with group ages between 24 – 29 years’ experience more crashes, and single vehicle accidents result in more casualty (fatality and injuries) compared to multi-vehicleaccidents. The most important resultobtainedfrom this study, a prediction model which link accidents with the number of registered vehicles and population.
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Farzana Islam, Nashid Tabassum Khan, Sohel Mahmud, Farhana Shahid, Mahbub Alam Mondal, and Shanjida Munmun. "Road traffic accidents, the leading cause of death: A retrospective study." Z H Sikder Women’s Medical College Journal 3, Number 2 (June 1, 2021): 26–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.47648/zhswmcj.2021.v0302.06.
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Road traffic accidents (RTAs) has spiked over the past few years and has become a major public health concern in Bangladesh. Globally, RTA causes 1.35 million deaths annually. The consequences of road traffic accident not only affect the victim’s physical, psychological and financial hardship, but also has fatal impact on the functioning of the whole family. The objective of this study was to evaluate the present situation of RTA in Dhaka city, to find out the pattern of injuries, to identify the causes, frequency, socio- demographic characteristics of the victims and to identify the measures to minimize the incidence of RTAs. This retrospective study was conducted in the department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology of Dhaka Medical College during January 2019 to December 2019. A total of 154 medico-legal cases of road traffic accidents were brought to the mortuary of Dhaka Medical College from 23 police stations and 1 railway Thana. Data was collected from inquest report, Challan and postmortem reports from the department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Dhaka Medical College. This study shows that a total of 154 post mortems of RTA cases were conducted at DMC morgue during January 2019 to December 2019. Greater number of the accidents occurred during June 28 (18.18%) and August 25 (16.23%). Among the victims, 114 (74.03%) were male and 40 (25.97%)were female. Most of fatality was among the age group 22 to 27 years (48, 31.17%) followed by 28 to 33 years age group (32, 20.78%). By relidion, Muslims were 130 (84.41%), followed by Hindus (19, 12.34 %), and Christians (05, 3.25 %). Considering the injury patterns, all victims had multiple abrasion and bruise 154 (100%), fracture ribs 28 (18.18%), fracture hipbones 26(16.88 %), fracture skull bones 17 (11.04%), head injury 24 (15.58%) and intracranial haemorrhages 24 (15.58%). Road traffic accidents can be minimized by creating public awareness among all road users about traffic signals and traffic safety rules as far as private users of vehicles are concerned.
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Touahmia, M. "Identification of Risk Factors Influencing Road Traffic Accidents." Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research 8, no. 1 (February 20, 2018): 2417–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.48084/etasr.1615.
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Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are becoming a major problem around the world, incurring enormous losses of human and economic resources. Recent reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) reveal that each year more than 1.25 million people are killed and 50 million are injured in road traffic accidents worldwide. In Saudi Arabia, statistics show that at least one traffic accident occurs every minute, causing up to 7,000 deaths and over 39,000 injuries annually. In this study, the main causes of RATs in the province of Hail are examined. The data was collected through the use of a survey which was developed to evaluate the effect of influencing parameters on RTA rate. The results show that 67% of RTAs result from human factors, 29% from road conditions and 4% from vehicle defects. Excessive speed and violation of traffic rules and regulations were found to be the main causes of RATs. Low rates of compliance with speed limit signs and seat-belt regulations were also observed. These findings highlight the need of strengthening effective traffic law enforcement alongside with improving traffic safety and raising public awareness.
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Shadan Taj, Qurat Ul Ain, and Karmakonda Anil Kumar. "Epidemiological study of road traffic injury victims attending a tertiary care centre in Hyderabad." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 7, no. 5 (April 24, 2020): 1699. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20201493.
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Background: Increased vehicular traffic on roads has now begun to cause road traffic accidents. Road traffic injuries will rise to become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030. In India every year road traffic accidents (RTA) accounts for over 1,00,000 deaths, 2 million hospitalization and 7.7 million minor injuries. The objective of the study was to study the socio-demographic profile and the epidemiological factors related to RTA.Methods: It is a cross-sectional, hospital based descriptive study done on all road traffic injury victims admitted at Owaisi hospital attached to deccan college of medical sciences between April 2013 and July 2014. 573 RTA victims were interviewed using a predesigned questionnaire.Results: Majority of the victims were from the age group of 25 to 39 years (38.4%). Majority are males (85.5%). Majority victims had a primary level of education (29.3%), followed by illiterates (20.6%). Majority victims were from upper lower socio-economic class (34.5%) and lower class (30.4%). Majority of the accidents occurred on weekends (57%). Maximum road traffic accidents (45%) occurred during rainy season. Majority of the road user victims were drivers (47%). Motorised two wheelers (43%) were the leading road users among the victims.Conclusions: Majority of the victims being in the productive age group. Public should be sensitized about the raise in road traffic accidents especially in peak hours and weekends. Motorcyclists being the leading road users among victims must be counselled regularly regarding proper road safety measures.
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Shrestha, Sugam, BN Yadav, Shivendra Jha, and Bikash Sah. "Pattern of Morbidity and Mortality Due to Road Traffic Accident Cases at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan." Nepal Medical Journal 3, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.37080/nmj.122.
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Introduction: Road traffic injuries and deaths caused by motor vehicles is a growing public health problem all over the world. Head injury and blunt abdominal trauma are major health problems and are frequent causes of death among Road Traffic Accident (RTA) victims.
Methods: A total of 348 cases were examined in Emergency department and the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology at B.P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan during the period of one year. Data were collected using proforma and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 11.5. Injury Severity Score (ISS) was used to assess the severity of injuries.
Result: There were 318 morbidity and 30 mortality cases. Male to female ratio was 2.2:1. The commonest age group involved was 21-30 years i.e.32.1%. The most common vehicle involved was two wheelers (60.9%) followed by heavy four or more wheelers (20.9%) and the most common nature of accident was through collision of the vehicles. Abrasion was the most common injury occurred during the RTA (61.2%). 34.1% of the victims had laceration, 8.6% had contusion and 20.9% had fractures. Median Injury Severity Score was 31.5 in mortality and 1 in morbidity cases.
Conclusion: Road traffic accident is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality. Injuries in various body regions are frequent findings in victims of RTA. The median Injury Severity Score (ISS) of mortality cases was significantly high compared to that of morbidity cases.
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Kovačević, Jelena, Hrvoje Palenkić, Ivan Miškulin, Oliver Pavlović, Marinela Kristić, Slavko Čandrlić, Branka Lončar, Milanka Mrčela, Marina Samardžija, and Maja Miškulin. "Čimbenici povezani s osljedama u cestovnom prometu i njihovom težinom." Collegium antropologicum 44, no. 4 (2020): 191–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5671/ca.44.4.1.
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Road traffic injuries cause considerable losses to individuals, their families, and to nations as a whole. Factors related to road traffic injuries and to the severity of such injuries have not been fully elucidated or evaluated. The aim of this study was to explore factors related to road traffic injuries and their severity in cohort of 200 road traffic accident (RTA) survivors from Eastern Croatia. Sustaining injury was associated with rural residence (p=0.032), lower education level (p=0.001), unemployment (p=0.001), being single (p=0.014), under average self-assessed economic status (p=0.001), alcohol abstinence (p=0.018), use of medications (p=0.031), self-assessed life-threat (p<0.001), pain after the RTA (p<0.001), hospitalization after the RTA (p<0.001), hospitalization duration (p<0.001), surgery (p=0.048), rehabilitation following the RTA (p=0.001) and PTSD symptoms (p=0.001). Injury severity was associated with lower education level (p=0.013), unemployment (p=0.004), being single (p=0.017), under average self-assessed economic status (p<0.001), alcohol abstinence (p=0.042), use of medications (p=0.014), self-assessed life-threat (p<0.001), pain after the RTA (p<0.001), being a pedestrian or a cyclist (p=0.011), hospitalization after the RTA (p<0.001), hospitalization duration (p<0.001), surgery (p<0.001), rehabilitation following the RTA (p=0.001), depression (p<0.001) and PTSD symptoms (p<0.001). In order to more adequately prevent road traffic injuries knowledge about factors associated with such injuries and their severity should be base for the creation of specific prevention programs at regional and national level.
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Urfi, Ali Amir, Salman Khalil, and Mohd F. Hoda. "Road traffic accidents with head injury: delay in treatment and socioeconomic and legal impact." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 4, no. 1 (December 21, 2016): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20164707.
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Background: Road traffic accidents (RTAs) with the head injury warrants early treatment. The delay in receiving the specialized care adversely affects the outcome. Economic losses due to RTA with the Head Injury amount of Rs 550 crores (12.5 billion dollars), an amount that equals our defense budget. Insurance of vehicles and victims and compensation claims are related legal issues. The Objectives of the study were: 1. To analyze the delay in reaching the hospital following the Road Traffic Accident with Head Injury. 2. To study the pattern of pre-hospital treatment received. 3. To measure the socioeconomic and legal impact of Road Traffic Accident cases with Head Injury.Methods: A hospital based cross-sectional study was conducted in casualty and allied departments of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital, Aligarh. All cases of RTA with Head Injury admitted from August 2010 to July 2011 who were 15-45 years of age were included in the study using purposive sampling. Data was analyzed with SPSS 20.Results: A total of 463 patients were included in the study. Almost two-third of patients i.e. 315 (68.0%) were brought to hospital within 6 hours and the remaining 148 (32.0%) reached hospital after lapse of 6 or more hours. Of all patients who reached hospital before 6 hours, only 70 males and 10 females received some form of pre-hospital treatment. The mean expenditure during hospital stay was Rs.3663.71. About 51.6% of patients had to stay for 1-3 days in hospital following a head injury. As many as three-fourth of vehicles involved in accident were insured while just 14.3% of patients were insured. Only 5 (1.1%) out of the 463 patients applied for compensation till the time of interview.Conclusions: Reaching hospital early has direct bearing on final outcome of accidents. RTAs with Head Injury lead to variable out-of-pocket expenditure for patients and their attendants. Majority of victims do not have insurance, though insurance of vehicles is a common practice.
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Dyce, J., and J. E. F. Houlton. "Does Fracture Pattern Influence Thoracic Trauma?" Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology 05, no. 03 (1992): 90–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1633075.
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SummaryThe case records of 300 dogs presented for fracture repair following road traffic accident (RTA) or other trauma were studied to determine possible relationships between specific patterns of skeletal trauma and the prevalence of thoracic wall and pulmonary injury.A significantly greater proportion of dogs involved in RTA (31%) sustained thoracic trauma compared ro those injured by other means (2.4%). Although RTA cases were more likely to suffer multiple fractures (23%), there was no significant relationship between the incidence and distribution of a fracture(s) and radiographic evidence of thoracic trauma.Of those dogs with thoracic trauma, pneumothorax and pulmonary contusion were the most frequent injuries; more than one type of injury occurred in 43% of these cases.Clinical management was altered as a result of thoracic injury in 24% of these cases.In a retrospective survey of 300 dogs presented for fracture repair, there was no significant relationship between fracture pattern and the prevalence of thoracic trauma. Following road traffic accident, radio-graphic examination revealed thoracic trauma in 31% of dogs. Clinical management was modified as a result of thoracic injury in 24% of cases.
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Mitra, Satabdi, Indrajit Saha, Dibakar Haldar, Adiyta Prasad Sarkar, and Gautam Narayan Sarkar. "Pattern of epidemiological correlates among road traffic accident in-patients of a tertiary care hospital of West Bengal, India." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 5, no. 5 (April 24, 2018): 1933. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20181701.
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Background: Road traffic accident (RTA) is an emerging epidemic of current century perpetrated by a complex interaction of human, vehicle and roadways/environmental factors. The current study was conducted to find out the various determinants of outcomes of RTAs in a district of West Bengal, India.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted over one year by face-to-face interviewing 384 RTA in-patients of departments of General Surgery and Orthopedics of a rural tertiary level hospital of West Bengal, India selected via scheduled sampling. Information pertaining to demographic and correlates of RTA were collected. Follow-up telephonic interview was conducted after one month for ascertaining the final outcome. There were 16 non-respondents in the 2nd phase who were excluded during final compilation rendering the sample size to 368. With SPSS version 22.0, descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were done.Results: 13.2% and 21.0% of study participants had death and disability respectively. On multinomial logistic regression assuming complete cure as reference outcome, both death and disability were revealed to have significant (<0.05) association to non-usage of protective devices, time of incidence (6AM to 6PM), poor road condition, sustaining multiple injuries and lapsing ‘golden hour’ for treatment.Conclusions: Stringent enforcement of legislations regarding various road safety measures, improving ply-worthiness of roads and establishment of trauma care centre at the district are essential to induce road “safe systems”.
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Afridi, Almas, Hamid Shahzad, Jamal Akhter, Muhammd Nouman, Shah Hussain, Rehmat Ullah Shah, Zeeshan Muhammd Jaffar, and Tariq Hayat. "Trends of Road Traffic Accidents: Patterns of Injuries in Road Traffic Accidents Victims: A study from Lady Reading Hospital MTI, Peshawar KPK." Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences 15, no. 8 (August 30, 2021): 2194–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.53350/pjmhs211582194.
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Background This study reflects the pattern of road traffic accidents and road traffic injuries sustained by RTA victims reporting to LRH MTI. Traffic volume, single and narrow roads is a big problem, traffic rules violation is another demon, lack of awareness, reluctance for the use of safety gears, underage vehicle drivers or rider with questionable driving/ riding skills and no license has worsen the injury pattern and more severe crashes here, putting pedestrians and biker at high risk. Aim: To know the different trends of road traffic accidents, most common victims and different patterns of injuries Methods This is hospital based analytical comparative study, which was conducted in the trauma section of Accident Emergency lady reading hospital MTI Peshawar KPK, during the tenure from May 2020 to November 2020. In this study 298 victims of road traffic accidents were assessed and analyzed from both genders and of all age groups. Results 298 victims of RTAs evaluated in our study. Most common mechanism involved pedestrian verses vehicle 40.3% followed by vehicle versus vehicle 28.6%, curiously in 5.3% of RTAs mechanism was unknown. Most of victims were males when compared with females, Males 86.3% and females 13.6%. children age group 0 -10 years makes 12.6%. Most common vehicle involved was a bike in 48%, followed by car 30% and then 3-wheelers (auto ricksha and Qing chi) 15.3% followed by crashes involving unknown vehicle 8% which is significantly high with all the victims severely wounded or unknown category. Most common victims were vulnerable road users (pedestrian and bike riders) 35% pedestrians and 31.6% bike riders. 11.3% of victims were passengers. Most common injury sustained was head injury38.5%(n=115), followed by lower limb injuries(n=105) 35.2% and polytrauma victims with chilling percentage of 9.3%. Conclusion There is a rising toll of road traffic injuries in and around Peshawar and majority being reported to emergency department LRH, MTI and it is major public health concern. Not only Pedestrians and bike rider are at threat but children of age group under 10 as well with high pedestrian mortality. If proper preventive steps not taken this will continue to rise causing significant death and disabilities. Keywords: Road traffic injuries, road traffic accidents, safety gears road traffic injury victims
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Baranov, A. V., S. F. Goncharov, E. A. Mordovsky, and A. S. Samoylov. "Organization of the provision of specialized medical care to injured in road accidents on the federal highway M-8 «Kholmogory» in the Arkhangelsk region during the hospital period." Medicо-Biological and Socio-Psychological Problems of Safety in Emergency Situations, no. 3 (September 10, 2021): 18–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.25016/2541-7487-2021-0-3-18-25.
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Relevance. Road traffic injuries are a global pandemic and one of the leading causes of death in the population. Federal highway M-8 “Kholmogory” is the leading transport artery of the European North of the country; has pronounced features inherent in all northern roads: significant distances between settlements and difficult road conditions, which together increase the risk of road traffic accidents (RTA) with medical consequences, and also seriously complicate the process of providing medical care to injured.Intention. To analize provision of specialized medical care to injured in RTA on the federal highway M-8 “Kholmogory” in the Arkhangelsk region during the hospital period and propose improvements.Methodology. Domestic and foreign publications on the organizational approaches to the provision of specialized medical care to injured in road traffic accidents during the hospital period were analyzed based on specialized scientific search engines (eLibrary, PubMed, Scopus).Results and Discussion. Problems in the organization of medical care to injured in RTA on the federal highway M-8 “Kholmogory” in the Arkhangelsk region during the hospital period were identified and systematized. The ways of its improvement are outlined.Conclusion. Implementation of the measures proposed will reduce medical and sanitary consequences, concomitant road traffic injuries on the federal highway, including disability and mortality in the medium and long term.
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Karim, Fareed M. A., Ali Abdo Saleh, Aref Taijoobux, and Marko Ševrović. "Developing a Model for Forecasting Road Traffic Accident (RTA) Fatalities in Yemen." Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering 25, no. 4 (December 20, 2017): 12–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sjce-2017-0018.
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Abstract The aim of this paper is to develop a model for forecasting RTA fatalities in Yemen. The yearly fatalities was modeled as the dependent variable, while the number of independent variables included the population, number of vehicles, GNP, GDP and Real GDP per capita. It was determined that all these variables are highly correlated with the correlation coefficient (r ≈ 0.9); in order to avoid multicollinearity in the model, a single variable with the highest r value was selected (real GDP per capita). A simple regression model was developed; the model was very good (R2=0.916); however, the residuals were serially correlated. The Prais-Winsten procedure was used to overcome this violation of the regression assumption. The data for a 20-year period from 1991-2010 were analyzed to build the model; the model was validated by using data for the years 2011-2013; the historical fit for the period 1991 - 2011 was very good. Also, the validation for 2011-2013 proved accurate.
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Moskvichyova, M. G., and E. V. Shishkin. "Direct Causes of Death in Road Traffic Accident Victims and Evaluation of the Efficacy of Three-Level Trauma Centers Activity in Chelyabinsk Region." N.N. Priorov Journal of Traumatology and Orthopedics 21, no. 3 (September 15, 2014): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/vto2014035-9.
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Data on direct causes of death in road traffic accident (RTA) victims for Chelyabinsk region is presented for 2 periods, i.e. before (2008-2010) and after (2011-2013) organization of trauma center. Comparison of the level and structure of RTA death causes in two three-year periods showed no significant differences. Evaluation of the efficacy of trauma centers activity (2011 - 2013) that render medical care to RTA victims with multiple and concomitant injuries is performed. During three-year period of trauma centers activity the number of road traffic deaths resulted from multiple and concomitant injuries increased by 17.22%. No statistically significant changes in the rate of three main causes of RTA related death (multiple and concomitant injuries, head and chest injuries) were noted during the study period. Achieved results confirm the necessity to elaborate and introduce the monitoring that will enable to evaluate the efficacy and quality of trauma centers activity at all steps of medical care rendering including patients’ transportation.