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Road traffic accidents in Yemen
International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2008Highway accidents are responsible for an estimated 1.2 million deaths and as many as 50 million injuries across the world annually. Some factors contributing to highway accidents in Yemen are increasing urbanization and changes in social habits and standards of living.
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Road traffic accidents and the elderly
Geriatrics & Gerontology International, 2009Aim: To identify and evaluate the causes and characteristics of road traffic accidents (RTA) and to analyze injury patterns in elderly road traffic victims in order to apply appropriate measures for the prevention of RTA in the elderly.Methods: Two hundred and fifty‐eight elderly road traffic victims admitted to the Emergency and Traumatology ...
Suzan, Abou-Raya, Leila Abd, ElMeguid
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Road traffic accidents: a pictorial review
Emergency Radiology, 2018Road traffic accidents are still a major cause of morbidity and mortality. With well-established whole-body CT protocols in trauma, radiologists are an integral part of trauma diagnosis and management teams. Five well-recognized traumatic syndromes (seat belt syndrome, handlebar syndrome, scapulothoracic dissociation, dashboard syndrome, and brake ...
Sanaa Kissi, L. Fournier, N. How Kit
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Road traffic accident trends in Nigeria
International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2006(Received 21 June 2005; in final form 7 February 2006)1. IntroductionRoad traffic accidents (RTAs) are a common cause ofdisability and also a leading cause of death all over theworld (Andrade and Jorge 2000, Ansari et al. 2000, Kopitsand Cropper 2005). For example, in Saudi Arabia, 81% ofdeaths in Ministry of Health hospitals are due to RTAs and20% of ...
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Mental Illness and Road Traffic Accidents
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1980One hundred psychiatric patients were carefully matched with 100 physically ill patients and their driving records compared. The psychiatric patients were consuming far greater quantities of psychotropic drugs and included a larger number of alcoholics and heavy drinkers.
Armstrong J.L., Whitlock F.A.
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Road traffic accidents in Saudi Arabia
Public Health, 1994Road traffic accidents are a major health hazard in Saudi Arabia, particularly during Ramadan. The ensuing trauma has increased in direct proportion to the increase in the number of road vehicles. An audit of RTAs over a one-year period revealed that, out of 361 victims, 16% were under 10 years and 47% between 11 and 30 years. None of those involved in
N J, Shanks, M, Ansari, D, al-Kalai
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Road traffic accidents: An overview of data sources, analysis techniques and contributing factors
Materials Today: Proceedings, 2021Arun Chand, S. Jayesh, A. Bhasi
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Psychological Consequences of Road Traffic Accidents
Medicine, Science and the Law, 1999Although accident-induced psyche-pathology was formerly considered as being associated with secondary gain, subsequent reports have refuted this contention. More recent studies have shown that road traffic accident-induced psychopathology can be a persistent and chronic disability, irrespective of whether the victim seeks compensation.
I S, Bennun, P, Bell
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North East Medical College Journal, 2017
Introduction: An accident has been defined as: “an unexpected, unplanned occurrence which may involve injury”. WHO defined in 1956 accident as an “unpremeditated event resulting in recognizable damage”. According to another definition, an accident is that occurrence in a sequence of events which usually produces unintended injury, death or property ...
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Introduction: An accident has been defined as: “an unexpected, unplanned occurrence which may involve injury”. WHO defined in 1956 accident as an “unpremeditated event resulting in recognizable damage”. According to another definition, an accident is that occurrence in a sequence of events which usually produces unintended injury, death or property ...
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Sick-leave after Road Traffic Accidents
Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, 1976Sick-leave after road traffic accidents. Hansson, P. G. (Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery I, Sahlgren Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden). 425 road traffic casualties, all covered by the National Insurance Scheme, were followed up regarding duration of inability to work. The average for the whole group was 35 days.
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