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home / centre for automotive safety research / Publications / List / Details Publication Details| Title | Enhancing Road Safety: Improving Injury Severity Assessment and Post-Crash Care Analysis | | Authors | Ponte G, Lindsay VL | | Year | 2024 | | Type | Unknown | | Abstract | Various measures can be used to define a ‘serious injury’ resulting from a road crash. These range from police reported data on whether a road crash participant was admitted to hospital, to in-depth detailed coding of each individual injury sustained by a person in a road crash using the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS). The latter is often reduced to a single value, indicating the maximal level of injury sustained (MAIS) by an injured person. MAIS greater than three is commonly used as a serious injury indicator, and the European Commission have adopted this definition. However, this definition diminishes the influence of multiple less severe injuries that may increase both overall injury as well as extended hospital stay. This research explores the various injury measures as well as post-crash recovery time spent in hospital, and which measure might give a better indication of serious injury. | | Conference Name | 2024 Australasian Road Safety Conference | | Conference Abbreviation | ARSC24 | | Conference Location | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia | | Conference Date | 30 September-3 October | | Page Range | 418-420 | | Notes | Available in chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://australasianroadsafetyconference.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ARSC2024-Proceedings-compressed.pdf |
| Reference | | Ponte G, Lindsay VL (2024). Enhancing Road Safety: Improving Injury Severity Assessment and Post-Crash Care Analysis. 2024 Australasian Road Safety Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 30 September-3 October. [PRESENTED ABSTRACT] |
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