In harm's way : a study of Northern Territory linked crash records (original) (raw)

2016

Abstract

Background This study was commissioned by the NT Road Safety Task Force to identify factors underpinning the NT’s excessive level of road trauma and quantify their impact on the injury outcomes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous road traffic casualties. It was conducted using a linked dataset of NT public hospital crash-related admission records from the HMD matched to NT Police crash records from the VADB during a nine-year period 1999–2007. Aim This study aimed to provide answers to three research questions:  How useful is a linked dataset as a tool for identifying the relationship between contributing factors and injury outcomes among road traffic casualties?  What is the impact of ethnicity on the relationship between contributing factors and injury outcomes among road traffic casualties?  Which factors have most influence on fatal and ‘high threat to life’ injury outcomes, among Indigenous and non-Indigenous casualties? Literature review The literature review identified that t...

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