[Reappraisals of mental disabilities due to traffic accidents: a retrospective analysis of 51 cases].
OBJECTIVE
To discuss the causes for changes of opinions in reappraisals of mental disabilities due to traffic accidents.


METHODS
Fifty-one reappraisals of mental disorders due to traffic accidents from October 2009 to October 2011 in the Institute of Forensic Science, Shaoxing Seventh People's Hospital, were retrospectively analyzed.


RESULTS
In the reappraisals, the opinions about disability grade changed in 30 cases (58.82%), including 8 cases increased and 22 cases decreased. According to the causes of changing the opinions, there were 8, 10 and 2 cases related to different understandings of appraisers in the severities of mental disorders, subjective judgements and certain psychiatric symptoms, respectively. Also, there were 10 cases related to different appraisal time.


CONCLUSIONS
Appraisals of mental disabilities should grasp the appraisal time, decrease the changes of opinions due to the differences of appraisers and correctly understand the orders of rules and clauses.
Institute of Forensic Science, Shaoxing Seventh People's Hospital, Shaoxing 312000, China. 85334356@sxmail.net
Guan-Mao
GM
Yu
Zheng-Ping
ZP
Chen
Guo-Qiang
GQ
Tian
D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult