title: Acute injury statistics--a true picture?
abstract: The official data on traffic victims are based on police-reported accidents. Many authors have shown that these data are not fully representative. In order to obtain reliable accident statistics, it is suggested that these be based primarily on injured persons with long-term consequences.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nygren
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Hansson
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tingvall
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gustafsson
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D006801:Humans; D011996:Records / Q000592:standards; D013548:Sweden; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*