Samenvatting
Hospital emergency department visits for motor vehicle trauma occurring in a midwestern metropolitan region were analyzed to determine the incidence and outcome by age, sex, and road- use category. A 50% incidence sample of motor vehicle trauma events to residents of this region was identified from the emergency department records of 41 participating hospitals for a one- year period, 1977. These hospitals accounted for 98% of all emergency department cases in the region.