Severity and injury characteristics among matched hospitalized motorcycle drivers and their passengers.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

After car accident, motorcycle accident ranks as the second leading cause of traffic fatality in Iran. This study aimed to compare the severity and clinical presentations between drivers and passengers under the same injury circumstance.

Methods

This study was conducted in the trauma center of Shiraz, Iran in 2017. Data on demographics, triage level, blood pressure, respiratory rate, Glasgow coma scale (GCS), injured body region, injury severity score (ISS), revised trauma score (RTS), and result of accident were compared between pairs of drivers and passengers. The agreement of any type of injury between drivers and passengers evaluated by Kappa test.

Results

This study included 143 matched pairs of drivers and passengers. Most of the pairs (84.5%) did not us

SUBMITTER: Yadollahi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6667746 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature