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Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
versión impresa ISSN 1679-4974versión On-line ISSN 2237-9622
Resumen
SILVA NETO, Caroline de Lima; LOPES, Maria Carolina Barbosa Texeira; THOMAZ, Rosimey Romero y WHITAKER, Iveth Yamaguchi. Mortality of motorcyclists with traumatic injuries resulting from traffic accidents in São José dos Campos city, Brazil, in 2015: a cohort study. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2020, vol.29, n.5, e2020133. Epub 12-Nov-2020. ISSN 1679-4974. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1679-49742020000500003.
Objective:
To analyze factors associated with mortality from traumatic injuries among motorcyclists.
Methods:
This was a prospective cohort conducted at the Municipal Hospital of São José dos Campos, Brazil, in 2015. Motorcyclists with traumatic injuries, ≥14 years old and hospitalized were included. Sociodemographic, accident and hospitalization variables were analyzed by applying a Poisson regression model showing relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI).
Results:
Among 190 motorcyclists, 161 (84.7%) young men were found to have 422 (41.8%) injuries to the lower and upper extremities. Incidence of death increased as physiological injury severity (RR=9.67 [95%CI 1.46;64.26] and RR=4.71 [95%CI 1.36;16.26]), and anatomical injury severity (RR=31.49 [95%CI 3.72;266.38]) increased, but was lower within up to one week of hospitalization (RR=0.39 [95%CI 0.15;0.98]).
Conclusion:
Injury severity and length of hospital stay were associated with motorcyclist deaths. Further studies should be conducted to confirm these findings and to analyze the relationships in greater detail.
Palabras clave : Accidents, Traffic; Motorcycles; Injury Severity Score; Mortality; Cohort Studies.