Accuracy of fatal motorcycle-injury reporting on death certificates

Road Traffic Deaths in Brazil: Rising Trends in Pedestrian and Motorcycle Occupant Deaths

“…This analysis is limited by the quality of data collection and reporting to the SIM national database. The accuracy of death certificate and hospital-coded death data has long been recognized as limited (Glasser 1981;Lu et al 2001), in particular with road traffic deaths (Harris 1990;Hijar et al 2012;Lapidus et al 1994). Previous studies from Brazil have shown that cause-ofdeath coding in the SIM database can be limited; when reviewing coded deaths from the southern city of Porto Alegre, Fajardo et al (2009) found that nearly 13 percent needed to be recoded by researchers.…”

Motorcyclists’ Mortality Pattern in Colombia from 2000 to 2013: A Longitudinal Study

“…[85][86][87][88][89][90][91]. On the other hand, the records were, also, not correlated, with basic information such as policies to ease purchase of vehicles, price of gas, motorcyclist's perceptions and preferences for using a type of vehicle, among others [92][93][94][95].…”

Practical applications of injury surveillance: a brief 25-year history of the Connecticut Injury Prevention Center

“…We have used our surveillance system to describe childhood injury patterns both in the city of Hartford and across Connecticut 5–8. Additionally, our surveillance system has driven studies of motorcycle injury,9 10 bicycle injury,11 firearm injury,12 13 child victims of homicide,14 work-related injury in adolescents,15 burn injury,16 injury reporting in newspapers,17 domestic violence screening in healthcare settings,18 safe transport for children with special needs,19 bullying among special needs students,20 violent death and safety device coding on police accident report forms,21 22 injury epidemiology among admitted trauma patients,23 24 all-terrain vehicle injuries25 26 and knee injury prevention among high school coaches 27…”