@article{ref1,
title="Characteristics, costs and effects of transportation injuries",
journal="Proceedings: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine Annual Conference",
year="1993",
author="Herreid, T. W. and Davis, J. H. and Skelly, Joan M. and Waller, Julian A.",
volume="37",
number="",
pages="1-13",
abstract="We studied 470 crash - and noncrash-related transportation injuries to vehicle occupants, bicyclists, and pedestrians seen at a trauma center. 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 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.<p />",
language="",
issn="1540-0344",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}