从警方关于儿童行人与自行车机动车事故报告中汇编的数据的局限性。

Limitations of data compiled from police reports on pediatric pedestrian and bicycle motor vehicle events.

作者信息

Agran P F, Castillo D N, Winn D G

机构信息

Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine 92717.

出版信息

Accid Anal Prev. 1990 Aug;22(4):361-70. doi: 10.1016/0001-4575(90)90051-l.

DOI:10.1016/0001-4575(90)90051-l

PMID:2222701

Abstract

Police reports were compared to the information provided by a hospital monitoring system for children under 15 years old injured as pedestrians and bicyclists by moving motor vehicles in Orange County, California. The analysis was limited to identifying caveats in the police report database. Underreporting by police was conservatively estimated at 20% for pedestrians and 10% for bicyclists. Comparison of the pedestrian databases suggested underreporting by police of incidents involving 0-4-year-olds, nontraffic incidents, incidents in which the vehicle was backing up, and cases not involving a child crossing a street. Comparison of the bicyclist databases indicated an underreporting by police of nontraffic cases. These caveats, in part, are related to police agency reporting requirements. The police injury severity scale was found to correlate poorly with a scale based on medical diagnoses, and substantial underreporting by police of serious injuries was demonstrated. We suggest that utilization of police injury severity scales be limited to categories of fatal, injured, and not injured (when available).

摘要

警方报告与加利福尼亚州奥兰治县医院监测系统提供的信息进行了比较，该系统记录了15岁以下儿童作为行人和骑自行车者被行驶中的机动车撞伤的情况。分析仅限于识别警方报告数据库中的注意事项。据保守估计，警方对行人受伤情况的漏报率为20%，对骑自行车者受伤情况的漏报率为10%。行人数据库的比较表明，警方漏报了涉及0至4岁儿童的事件、非交通事件、车辆倒车时发生的事件以及不涉及儿童过马路的案件。骑自行车者数据库的比较表明，警方漏报了非交通案件。这些注意事项部分与警察机构的报告要求有关。研究发现，警方的伤害严重程度量表与基于医学诊断的量表相关性较差，并且证明警方对重伤情况存在大量漏报。我们建议，警方伤害严重程度量表的使用应限于致命、受伤和未受伤（如可获取）类别。