Citation

Vissoci JRN, Shogilev DJ, Krebs E, Andrade L, Vieira IF, Toomey N, Portero Batilana A, Haglund M, Staton CA. Traffic Injury Prev. 2017; 18(7): 767-773.

Affiliation

Division of Emergency Medicine , Department of Surgery , Division of Neurosurgery and Neurology, Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University , Durham USA , jnv4@duke.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15389588.2017.1314470

PMID

28448753

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to evaluate, through a systematic review of hospital based studies, the proportion of road traffic injuries and fatalities in SSA.

METHODS: In accordance with PRISMA and MOOSE guidelines we searched the following electronic databases: PubMed, Embase, Africa-Wide Information, Global Health, and Web of Science. Articles were eligible if they measured proportion of RTIs in SSA by using hospital based studies. In addition, a reference and citation analysis was conducted as well as a data quality assessment.

RESULTS: Until to 2015 there were a total of 83 hospital based epidemiologic studies including 310,660 trauma patients and 99,751 RTI cases, in 13 SSA countries. The median proportion of RTI among trauma patients was 32% (4% to 91%), of those the median proportion of death for the included articles was 5% (0.3% to 41%).

CONCLUSION: The number of studies evaluating RTI proportion and fatalities in SSA countries is increasing but without the exponential rise expected from WHO calls for research during the "Decade of Action for Road Traffic Injuries." Further research infrastructure including standardization of taxonomy, definitions, and data reporting measures, as well as funding, would allow for improved cross-country comparisons.

Language: en

Keywords

Road Traffic Injury; Sub Saharan Africa; proportion