The feasibility of linking hospital and police road crash casualty records without names

• Published in: Accident analysis and prevention Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 271 - 274
• Main Author: Rosman, Diana L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.03.1996
• Subjects: Accidents, Traffic - legislation & jurisprudence; Accidents, Traffic - statistics & numerical data; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data Collection; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Feasibility Studies; Hospital Records - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Incidence; Mathematical Computing; Medical Record Linkage; Patient Admission - statistics & numerical data; Record linkage; Road crash; Social Control, Formal; Software; Statistics; Western Australia - epidemiology; Wounds and Injuries - epidemiology; Western Australia; Road crash; Statistics; Record linkage

Government and other agencies routinely collect complementary information on road crash casualties and there may be opportunities to widen the scope of data available for research and policy evaluation if mechanisms can be established to combine these data sources. Where unit record data are availab...