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Citation

Cirera E, Plasencia A, Ferrando J, Arribas P. Crash Prev. Injury Control 2001; 2(3): 229-238.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Publisher Overseas Publishers Association - Gordon and Breach)

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Abstract

The availability of complete data on traffic injury cases including both the crash circumstances as well as health outcomes is a key tool to tailor appropriate motor-vehicle injury prevention policies at local and regional levels. This paper explores the feasibility of the probabilistic linkage of police and hospital emergency department data regarding motor vehicle cases in Barcelona (Spain), including the use of methodologies to optimize the linkage process. A probabilistic linkage process was performed using local police reports (n=12,481) as well as hospital emergency department data (n=16,733) from all traffic injury cases occurring in 1997. Common variables used in both files were: age, sex, position, vehicle, hospital, date of crash, and postal code of place of residence. In all linked pairs at least 1 variable coincided, in almost 2 of every 3 pairs at least 5 of the 7 variables coincided, and in 7.3% of the cases all variables coincided.

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