Implications of using administrative healthcare data to identify risk of motor vehicle crash-related injury: the importance of distinguishing crash from crash-related injury
To identify effective mechanisms for reducing morbidity and mortality from crashes, researchers should consider augmenting administrative datasets with information from police crash reports, and vice versa. When those data are not available, we caution researchers and policymakers against the tendency to conflate crash and crash-related injury when interpreting their findings.
Authors
- Seth A. Margolis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3863-4127)
- Andrew R. Zullo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1673-4570)
- Leah R. Lombardi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8721-6071)
- Nina R. Joyce (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7611-5494)
- Brian R. Ott (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4899-7116)
- Allison E. Curry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7076-3538)
- Melissa R. Pfeiffer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7133-2537)
Institutions
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
- Providence College (US)
- Brown University (US)
- Rhode Island Hospital (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Injury Epidemiology
- Published
- 2024-08-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-024-00523-3
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.36
Funders
- National Institute on Aging
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development