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Andrea M Thomas¹, Steven M Thygerson, Ray M Merrill

¹Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. andrea.thomas@hsc.utah.edu

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Estimating work-related motor vehicle crashes in Utah using linked databases reveals significant undercounts. Improved data coding is crucial for accurate injury surveillance and prevention efforts.

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Area of Science:

Occupational health
Public health surveillance
Traffic safety research

Background:

Work-related motor vehicle crashes pose a significant public health burden.
Existing databases often provide incomplete data on these incidents.
Accurate estimation is vital for effective prevention strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare and estimate the magnitude of work-related motor vehicle crashes in Utah.
To assess the impact of using probabilistically linked statewide databases for injury surveillance.
To identify discrepancies between crash and hospital data for work-related incidents.

Main Methods:

Probabilistic linkage of Utah's 2006-2007 motor vehicle crash and hospital databases.
Descriptive statistics to characterize occupants involved in work-related crashes.
Capture-recapture methods to estimate the total population size of injured individuals.

Main Results:

A substantial proportion of work-related crash injuries were inconsistently coded across databases (38.7% in crash data, 40.0% in hospital data).
Linked data identified 1443 occupants with records in both databases indicating work-relatedness.
Estimated population of work-related motor vehicle crash injuries ranged from 1852 to 8492 for 2006-2007.

Conclusions:

Reliance on single databases can lead to biased interpretations of work-related crash injury burden.
Even combined databases may underestimate the true magnitude of these crashes.
Enhanced data collection and coding practices for work-related incidents are urgently needed.