Whiplash-Associated Disorders : Clinical and medico-legal guidelines on the methods of ascertainment.
The manuscript presents the International Guidelines developed by the Working Group on Personal Injury and Damage under the patronage of the International Academy of Legal Medicine (IALM) regarding the Methods of Ascertainment of any suspected Whiplash-Associated Disorders (WAD).The document includes a detailed description of the logical and methodological steps of the ascertainment process as well as a synoptic diagram in the form of Flow Chart.
Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy. santodavide.ferrara@unipd.it.
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Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy.
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Service de Médecine Légale Hôpital Lapeyronie, University of Montpellier, 191 Av. du Doyen Gaston Giraud, Montpellier, Cedex 34295, France.
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Department of Neurosurgery, Semmelweis University, Amerikai út 57, 1145, Budapest, XIV, Hungary.
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Banczerowski
Private Medico-Legal Practice, Strada Marosticana 333, 36100, Vicenza, Italy.
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Bordignon
Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy.
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Boscolo-Berto
Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular and Critical Area Pathology, University of Pisa, Via Savi 10, 56126, Pisa, Italy.
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Domenici
Gorriz Hernando Médicos, Avda/Diagonal, 612 5° 9a, Barcelona, Spain.
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Gorriz Quevedo
Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of München, Nussbaumstrasse 26, 80336, Munich, Germany.
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Graw
Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of München, Nussbaumstrasse 26, 80336, Munich, Germany.
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Department of Legal Medicine, Forensic Toxicology and Anthropology, University of Granada, Avda. de Madrid 11, 18071, Granada, Spain.
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Hernandez Cueto
Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, J.B. Winsløws Vej 17, DK-5000, Odense C, Denmark.
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Knudsen
Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 1, 35128, Padova, Italy.
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Masiero
Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy.
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Montisci
Institute of Legal Medicine, Department of Health Sciences (DSS), University of Florence, Largo Brambilla, 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
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Norelli
Institute of Legal Medicine, Department of Health Sciences (DSS), University of Florence, Largo Brambilla, 3, 50134, Florence, Italy.
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Pinchi
State Forensic Medicine Service under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania, Mykolo Romerio Universitetas, Didlaukio g. 86E, Vilnius, 08303, Lithuania.
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Raudys
Institut de Médecine Légale, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Strasbourg, 11 Rue Humann, 67085, Strasbourg, France.
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Raul
Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität Würzburg, Versbacher Straße 3, 97078, Würzburg, Germany.
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Département de Neurosciences Cliniques, Service de Neurochirurgie, Faculté de Médecine, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland.
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Department of Pathological Anatomy and Forensic Medicine, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, 50411, Tartu, Estonia.
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Tuusov
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Cameron Forensic Medical Sciences, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK.
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Vanezis
Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, The Catholic University Leuven, Capucijnenvoer 7, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
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Vermylen
National Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Coimbra, Largo da Sé Nova, 3000-213, Coimbra, Portugal.
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Vieira
Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy.
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Department of Legal and Occupational Medicine, Toxicology and Public Health, University-Hospital of Padova, Via Falloppio 50, 35121, Padova, Italy.
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Department of Legal Medicine, Toxicology and Physical Anthropology, University of Granada, Avda Madrid 11, 18071, Granada, Spain.
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Department of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Section of Legal Medicine, University of Milan, V. Mangiagalli, 37, 20133, Milan, Italy.
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D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000592:standards; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000592:standards; D064232:Visual Analog Scale; D014911:Whiplash Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis*
IALM; International guidelines; Methods of ascertainment; Personal damage; Personal injury; Whiplash Associated Disorders (WAD)