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Citation

Waller JA, Skelly JM, Davis JH, Herreid TW. Accid. Anal. Prev. 1994; 26(5): 635-645.

Affiliation

Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7999208

Abstract

We studied 470 crash- and noncrash-related road transportation injuries to vehicle occupants, bicyclists, and pedestrians seen at a trauma center in Vermont. Among primary care patients, crash and noncrash groups had similar AIS and average disability at one year. Hospitalized patients had longer disability, but a majority of overall disability days and ongoing disability was found among nonhospitalized patients. Seventy-four percent of hospital bills were paid by insurance, 16% by government, 3% by self, with 7% unpaid. Limiting the sample only to hospitalized patients, or including referred patients, markedly affected--but in different ways--distributions of event type, body area injured, charges, and other characteristics.

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