22 Jan
2013
22 Jan
'13
8:11 a.m.
Ed,
FYI...See response below from a colleague in CDC's National Center for Injury
Prevention & Control.
Chris Kochtitzky, MSP
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Hi Chris,
The NEISS data will capture this information for ED visits at a national level, but not at
a sub-national level. Vital Statistics data should do the same for deaths but there are
some limitations in ICD-10 coding for "road user type" (such that a large
percentage are classified as "unknown road user type"). Both data sources can be
queried here, and query options include a choice of injuries that occur in traffic, not in
traffic, or both settings.
Laurie Beck, MPH
CDC/Injury Center
Please note part-time work schedule: Mon-Thurs, 8:30a-2:00p
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I would submit that another likely cause for a rise in bike injuries is lack of attention
to and compliance with rules of the road by bicyclists. Who among has not noticed
bicyclists running red lights, not stopping for stop lights, weaving through traffic, not
using hand signals, etc?
Marc Brenman
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Ed:
In SF, we have also observed a very high proportion of bike injuries going unreported.
Rochelle Dicker, cc'd above and head of the SFGHMC trauma unit, has done some thinking
and analysis on this issue using hospital records.
As you know, SF has had a fairly agressive bike infrastructure program with strong
political support. Bicycling behavior has increased substantially over the past decade as
evidenced by serial bike counts. Unfortunately, reported bike collision injury frequency
almost doubled over the past 5 or
6 years despite the investments in bike facilities. Potential culprits here could be the
co-location of bike facilities on arterials, newer riders, and the lack of reduction in
vehicle traffic. The confluence of new infrastructure, growth in riders, growth in
injuries suggest that SF may be a good place to study the safety effects of new bike
infrastructure in an existing urban context.
Locally, we are also very interested in redesigning our traffic injury surveillence system
to integrate hospital, police, and ambulence records and add public health / environmental
surveillence components. There are some good models in other countries. We have political
committment and data sharing agreements but lack $$ -- I am told that local transportation
$$ coming to cities cannot be used for such purposes.
rb
Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH
Director, Environmental Health, Department of Public Health
1390 Market Street, Suite 822
San Francisco, CA 94102
(e) rajiv.bhatia(a)sfdph.org
(t) 415 2523931
(w) www.sfenvironmentalhealth.org; www.sfphes.org
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It was nice to see everyone at TRB. While there I was in a discussion about the probably
that bike crashes that result in injuries might be under represented in our crash data.
Especially when you consider that a high percentage of the crashes do not involve a motor
vehicle and never make it to police records. If i were trying to get a handle on this at a
regional or state level are there any "non-traditional" sources of data like
hospital records that can be used. Anyone doing any work in this area?
This is becoming ever so important as we see more and mode shifting going on.
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