Road traffic injuries in one local health unit in the Lazio region: results of a surveillance system integrating police and health data

摘要

ObjectiveDifferent sources are available for the surveillance of Road Traffic injuries (RTI), but studied individually they present several limits. In this paper we present the results of a surveillance integrating healthcare data with the data gathered by the municipal police in the southeastern area of Rome (630,000 inhabitants) during the year 2003.