Animal-vehicle collisions in Victoria, Australia: An under-recognised cause of road traffic crashes.
Accidents, Traffic
/ classification
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Animals
Child
Child, Preschool
Dogs
/ injuries
Female
Humans
Macropodidae
/ injuries
Male
Middle Aged
Poisson Distribution
Registries
/ statistics & numerical data
Retrospective Studies
Victoria
/ epidemiology
Wounds and Injuries
/ epidemiology
injury
motor vehicle
prevention
traffic
Journal
Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
ISSN: 1742-6723
Titre abrégé: Emerg Med Australas
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 101199824
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2019
10 2019
Historique:
received:
30
03
2019
revised:
06
06
2019
accepted:
02
07
2019
pubmed:
31
7
2019
medline:
17
6
2020
entrez:
31
7
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Non-fatal injuries sustained from animal-vehicle collisions are a globally under-recognised road safety issue, with limited data on these crash types. The present study aimed to quantify the number and causes of major trauma events resulting from animal-vehicle collisions. The study was a retrospective analysis of major trauma cases occurring in Victoria, Australia, between 2007 and 2016, using data from the population-based Victorian State Trauma Registry. To identify animal-vehicle collisions, Victorian State Trauma Registry injury codes were combined with text-mining of the text description of the injury event. Over the 10 year period, there were 152 major trauma patients who were admitted to Victorian trauma-receiving hospitals due to vehicle collisions with animals. The crude population-based incidence rate for animal-vehicle collisions increased by 6.7% per year (incidence rate ratio 1.07; 95% confidence interval 1.01-1.13; P = 0.02). Development of systematic recording methods of animal-vehicle collisions will improve reporting of these crash types to assist future studies in implementing effective countermeasures.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31361079
doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13361
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
851-855Subventions
Organisme : Australian Research Council Future Fellowship
ID : DE180100825
Pays : International
Organisme : Australian Research Council Future Fellowship
ID : FT170100048
Pays : International
Organisme : National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellowship
ID : #545926
Pays : International
Organisme : Transport Accident Commission
Pays : International
Informations de copyright
© 2019 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
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