Matching of police and hospital road crash casualty records - a data-linkage study in Malaysia

被引：23
作者：
Kamaluddin, Noor Azreena [1 ,2 ]
Abd Rahman, Mohd Faizal [2 ]
Varhelyi, Andras [1 ]
机构：
[1] Lund Univ, Dept Technol & Soc, Lund, Sweden
[2] Univ Teknol MARA, Fac Civil Engn, Shah Alam, Malaysia
来源：
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INJURY CONTROL AND SAFETY PROMOTION | 2019年 / 26卷 / 01期
关键词：
Road crash victims; police register; hospital register; matching rate; reporting rate; INJURIES;
D O I：
10.1080/17457300.2018.1476385
中图分类号：
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号：
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要：
Underreporting of road crashes hampers the development of appropriate road safety countermeasures in many countries. In this study, police and hospital records from road crash casualties in the Melaka Tengah district in Malaysia from 2014 were collected to determine their matching and reporting rates. Based on authentic personal identifiers from both types of records, Microsoft SQL was used to reveal how the matching rate varies due to multiple factors. The results showed that 311 cases (of 7625 hospital records) could be linked to both databases, yielding a 4.1% matching rate and a 4.7% police reporting rate. Both the reporting and matching rates increased with the level of injury severity. The significant underreporting in the police database showed that complementary data are necessary for enhancing the current official crash data records.
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