Estimated number of seriously injured road users admitted to hospital in France between 2010 and 2017, based on medico-administrative data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In France, like in most developed countries, the number of road accident fatalities is estimated from police data. These estimates are considered to be good-quality, unlike estimates of road injuries admitted to hospital, and especially serious injuries.

Methods

The present study aimed to supply such data from French hospital medical information data-bases (PMSI). In the PMSI data-bases, road accident victims are identified by external causes of morbidity and mortality, which should be systematically recorded in case of injury, but are often missing. We therefore modeled presence/absence of external cause from the relevant subset of the medicine-surgery-obstetrics PMSI data-base using a logistic regression, and then weighting the results by inverse estimated proba

SUBMITTER: Zullo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7938523 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature