Personal injury recovery cost of pedestrian-vehicle collisions in New South Wales, Australia.

Background: There is a need for routine estimates of injury recovery costs from pedestrian collisions using hospital separation records for economic evaluations.

Objective: To estimate the cost of injury recovery following pedestrian-vehicle collisions using the personal injury recover cost (PIRC) equation using key demographic and injury characteristics.

Method: An estimation of the costs of on-road pedestrian-vehicle collisions involving individuals who were injured and hospitalized in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, from 2002 to 2011 using the PIRC equation.

Examination of narratives from emergency department presentations to identify road trauma, crash and injury risk factors for different age groups.

Background: Road trauma represents a high proportion of injury-related emergency department presentations. Narrative text recorded in the emergency department could provide useful information to monitor road trauma and to identify crash and injury risk factors by age group.

Objective: To examine the Public Health Real-time Emergency Department Surveillance System (PHREDSS) to identify road users (i.

The role of evidence, standards and education in rock fishing safety in New South Wales, Australia.

Objective: To examine rock fishing-related fatalities and hospitalisations, identify initiatives aimed at improving safety and survey key rock fishing stakeholders about the strengths and limitations of each initiative.

Method: This research obtained information from mortality and hospitalisation statistics, the published literature and key stakeholders for opinions on the strengths, limitations and improvements for rock fishing safety initiatives.

Results: Injury patterns involving rock fishers have largely remained unchanged over time.

Data linkage for injury surveillance and research in Australia: perils, pitfalls and potential.

Objective: To outline some of the key issues for injury-related data linkage studies in Australia and describe potential applications of data linkage for injury surveillance and research.

Methods: Narrative review of data linkage capacity and injury-related data collection quality in Australia.

Results: The establishment of national and state-based data linkage centres in Australia has been a great leap forward for data linkage capacity for injury research.

Can SNOMED CT as implemented in New South Wales, Australia be used for road trauma injury surveillance in emergency departments?

The introduction of Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) for diagnosis coding in emergency departments (EDs) in New South Wales (NSW) has implications for injury surveillance abilities. This study aimed to assess the consequences of its introduction, as implemented as part of the ED information system in NSW, for identifying road trauma-related injuries in EDs. It involved a retrospective analysis of road trauma-related injuries identified in linked police, ED and mortality records during March 2007 to December 2009.