Do deaths from road traffic injuries follow a classical trimodal pattern in North West Ethiopia? A hospital based prospective cohort study

The data set contains information collected from road traffic injury victims. The data was collected from all traffic injury victims, regardless of age and sex except those who were dead on arrival, comatose, and had no attendant. The variables included in this data includes, crash characteristics, hospital arrival time, road user category, availability of pre-hospital first aid, type of transportation used to transfer the victim, clinical findings, the outcome in the emergency department, and decision after evaluation at the emergency department.

 The primary outcome was time to death measured in hours between road traffic injury and the 30th day of injury. Accordingly, those victims who died between injury times to the 30th day of injury were events, and those who were still alive on the 30th day were censored cases.  Secondary outcomes were pre-hospital first aid, length of hospital stay, and hospital arrival time.  The exposure variable was having any degree of injury by any vehi...

本数据集包含从道路交通事故受伤者处收集的信息。数据收集对象涵盖所有道路交通事故受伤者，不受年龄和性别限制，但排除到达时已死亡、昏迷不醒或无陪护人员的伤者。数据包含的变量包括：事故特征、入院时间、道路使用者类别、院前急救可及性、伤者转运交通工具类型、临床检查结果、急诊科处置结局，以及急诊科评估后的决策。

主要结局指标为从道路交通事故受伤至伤后第30天的死亡时间（以小时为单位）。相应地，在受伤至伤后第30天期间死亡的伤者被定义为事件病例，而伤后第30天仍存活的伤者则为删失病例。次要结局指标包括院前急救、住院时长及入院时间。