Details of motorcycle accidents and their impact on healthcare costs.

Background: Of overall traffic accidents in 2011 in Turkey, 7.58% (n=21,107) were motorcycle accidents. Motorcycle accidents and their impact on healthcare costs are investigated in our study.

Evaluation of non-urgent visits to a busy urban emergency department.

Objective: To identify the proportion of patients who were taken into the emergency room on the basis of legal regulations and non-urgent medical procedures.

Methods: This prospective study was conducted in the Emergency Department, Toros State Hospital, Mersin, Turkey. Data were collected over 4 weeks (January 2011) and then analyzed using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Analysis of Variance, and Kruskal-Wallis H tests.