Hospitalized road crash injured; Developments in numbers, injury severity, and length of stay since 1984. During the last 2 decades, according to the road crash registration, the number of road deaths has decreased to less than half; to be precise, by 54% from 1984 to 2005. During the same period, according to the hospitals' national patient register 'LMR', the number of in-patients decreased a lot less, viz. by 16%. In order to find an explanation for this smaller decrease, SWOV analysed the LMR databases for the 1984-2005 period. The variables examined were: length of stay, the number who died in hospital, the number of injuries per patient, the injury severity, and the registration rate per crash type. This report describes the results of these analyses.
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