ArticleRevista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health2021
Road traffic injuries and substance use among emergency department patients in the Dominican Republic and Peru.
Article in Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- The Impact of Intoxication on the Prognosis of High-Speed Motor Vehicle Accidents: A Tertiary Care Center Experience.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Road traffic injury risk from alcohol and cannabis use among emergency department patients in Argentina.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2022Article
- The risks of warm nights and wet days in the context of climate change: assessing road safety outcomes in Boston, USA and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.Injury epidemiology · 2021Article
- Cannabis, Impaired Driving, and Road Safety: An Overview of Key Questions and Issues.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo report demographic and substance use characteristics and risk of road traffic injury (RTI) from alcohol use, cannabis use, and combined use in a sample of emergency department patients from two countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
methodsA cross-sectional study in which patients 18 years and older admitted within six hours of suffering an RTI to one emergency department in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic (
resultsOverall, 15.3% reported alcohol use prior to the event and 2.5% cannabis use. Drivers using alcohol only were over twice as likely to have an RTI (OR = 2.46,
conclusionsRisk of RTI for drivers in these two samples is significantly elevated from alcohol use, and more so for co-use with cannabis. Differences between the two countries underscore the need for similar data from the region to determine risk of RTI from substance use, including risk for passengers and pedestrians. Data suggest that alcohol contributes significantly to the burden of RTI, which calls for more stringent enforcement of alcohol control policy related to drink driving in the region.
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