title: [Definition of hospital discharge, serious injury and death from traffic injuries].
abstract: Road traffic injury surveillance involves methodological difficulties due, among other reasons, to the lack of consensus criteria for case definition. Police records have usually been the main source of information for monitoring traffic injuries, while health system data has hardly been used. Police records usually include comprehensive information on the characteristics of the crash, but often underreport injury cases and do not collect reliable information on the severity of injuries. However, statistics on severe traffic injuries have been based almost exclusively on police data. The aim of this paper is to propose criteria based on medical records to define: a) "Hospital discharge for traffic injuries", b) "Person with severe traffic injury", and c) "Death from traffic injuries" in order to homogenize the use of these sources.
authors.affiliation: Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona (ASPB), Barcelona, España; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), España; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau) , Barcelona, España. Electronic address: cperez@aspb.cat.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pérez
authors.affiliation: Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT), Madrid, España.
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seguí-Gómez
authors.affiliation: Centre de Salut Pública, Castellón, España.
authors.forename: Vita
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Arrufat
authors.affiliation: Institut de Medicina Legal de Catalunya(IMLC), Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Eneko
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Barberia
authors.affiliation: Departament de Salut, Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, España.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cabeza
authors.affiliation: Universitat de Vic, Vic, Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cirera
authors.affiliation: Dirección General de Salud Pública, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España.
authors.forename: Mercedes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gil
authors.affiliation: Unitat de Suport a la Recerca Barcelona, IDIAP Jordi Gol, Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martín
authors.affiliation: Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona (ASPB), Barcelona, España; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), España; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau) , Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Ana M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Novoa
authors.affiliation: Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona (ASPB), Barcelona, España; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), España; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau) , Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Olabarría
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Granada, Granada, España.
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lardelli
authors.affiliation: Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya, Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Josep Maria
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Suelves
authors.affiliation: Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona (ASPB), Barcelona, España; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), España; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau) , Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Santamariña-Rubio
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D010351:Patient Discharge; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000401:mortality*
keywords: Accidente de tráfico; Criterios de selección; Gravedad de la lesión; Health information systems; Injury; Injury severity; Lesión; Selection criteria; Sistemas de información sanitarios; Traffic accidents