NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
J Safety Res. 2011 Oct;42(5):345-50. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2011.06.007. Epub 2011 Sep 17.
Information from hospital trauma registries is increasingly being used to support injury surveillance efforts. This research examines the potential of using trauma registry data for road traffic injury surveillance for different types of road users in terms of both the information collected and how representative trauma data are compared to two population-based road traffic injury data collections.
The three data collections were assessed against recommended variables to be collected for injury surveillance purposes and the representativeness of the distribution of road traffic-related injury data from the trauma registry was compared to hospital admission and road traffic authority data collections.
Data from the trauma registry was largely not representative of the distribution of age groups or activities compared to the two population-based collections, but was representative for gender for some road user groups to at least one population-based data collection.
Trauma data could be used to supplement information from population-based data collections to inform road safety efforts.
Road safety policy makers should be aware of the potential and the limitations of using trauma registry data for road traffic injury surveillance.
医院创伤登记处的信息越来越多地被用于支持伤害监测工作。本研究从收集的信息以及创伤数据与两种基于人群的道路交通伤害数据收集的代表性方面，检查了使用创伤登记处数据对不同类型道路使用者的道路交通伤害进行监测的可能性。
评估了这三个数据收集，以了解为伤害监测目的而收集的建议变量，并将创伤登记处的道路交通相关伤害数据的分布代表性与医院入院和道路交通管理局数据收集进行了比较。
与两个基于人群的数据集相比，创伤登记处的数据在年龄组或活动分布方面代表性不强，但对于某些道路使用者群体，对于至少一个基于人群的数据集，性别数据具有代表性。
创伤数据可用于补充基于人群的数据收集的信息，以支持道路安全工作。
道路安全政策制定者应该意识到，使用创伤登记处数据进行道路交通伤害监测具有一定的潜力和局限性。
