Patterns and severity of injury in a hospital sample of road traffic accident casualties. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference of the International Association for Accident and traffic Medicine, and the 3rd International Conference on ...

The relation between the incidence and severity of injury in road accidents when derived from hospital sources and as recorded nationally is investigated. An attempt is made to define criteria for use by non-medical personnel which will indicate more realistically the different levels of severity as defined clinically.