SynthesisSaudi medical journal2015
Road safety and road traffic accidents in Saudi Arabia. A systematic review of existing evidence.
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107 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The Level of Knowledge and Attitude Toward Dealing With Fractures at Accident Sites Among Al Baha Population.Cureus · 2024Article
- Identifying the key characteristics, trends, and seasonality of pedestrian traffic injury at a major trauma center in Saudi Arabia: a registry-based retrospective cohort study, 2017-2022.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Magnitude and outcome of road traffic accidents among patients admitted in dessie town governmental hospitals, Northeast Amhara, Ethiopia, 2022.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Article
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- The Patterns and Quality of Acute Trauma Care in A University Hospital - A 5-year Analysis.Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) · 2024Article
- Implementing Prehospital Ultrasound at the Saudi Red Crescent Authority: Perceived Barriers and Training Needs.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- Public Awareness Levels Regarding Cervical Spine Injury and the Suitable First Aid Response Among Adults in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.International journal of general medicine · 2024Article
- Analysis of road traffic injuries presented to the emergency department in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia: a hospital-based study.Journal of medicine and life · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo identify the changing trends and crucial preventive approaches to road traffic accidents (RTAs) adopted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) over the last 2.5 decades, and to analyze aspects previously overlooked.
methodsThis systematic review was based on evidence of RTAs in KSA. All articles published during the last 25 years on road traffic accident in KSA were analyzed. This study was carried out from December 2013 to May 2014 in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Taibah University, Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, KSA.
resultsRoad traffic accidents accounted for 83.4% of all trauma admissions in 1984-1989, and no such overall trend was studied thereafter. The most frequently injured body regions as reported in the latest studies were head and neck, followed by upper and lower extremities, which was found to be opposite to that of the studies reported earlier. Hospital data showed an 8% non-significant increase in road accident mortalities in contrast to police records of a 27% significant reduction during the years 2005-2010. Excessive speeding was the most common cause reported in all recent and past studies.
conclusionDisparity was common in the type of reporting of RTAs, outcome measures, and possible causes over a period of 2.5 decade. All research exclusively looked into the drivers' faults. A sentinel surveillance of road crashes should be kept in place in the secondary and tertiary care hospitals for all regions of KSA.
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