Keith Vodden Dr. Douglas Smith - Transports Canada
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Appendix A—Detail on Calculations of the Ontario Model<br />
almost identical distribution, this time based on estimates by police of the average amount<br />
devoted to each severity type of collision.)<br />
Exhibit A-13 Health Care Professionals use by Injury and Collision<br />
Severity—Number of Visits (2004)<br />
Collision Severity<br />
Fatal Injury PDO TOTAL<br />
Primary MD:<br />
- Major 4,723 73,804 78,527<br />
- Minor 4,666 175,365 180,031<br />
- Minimal 1,214 72,573 73,787<br />
Specialist:<br />
- Major 1,761 27,526 29,287<br />
- Minor 1,740 65,404 67,144<br />
- Minimal 453 27,067 27,519<br />
Nurse:<br />
- Major 1,014 15,842 16,856<br />
- Minor 1,002 37,642 38,643<br />
- Minimal 261 15,578 15,838<br />
Physiotherapist:<br />
- Major 4,820 75,322 80,142<br />
- Minor 4,762 178,973 183,735<br />
- Minimal 1,239 74,066 75,305<br />
Chiropractor:<br />
- Major 2,878 44,974 47,852<br />
- Minor 2,843 106,863 109,706<br />
- Minimal 740 44,224 44,964<br />
Other (*):<br />
- Major 1,448 22,628 24,076<br />
- Minor 1,431 53,766 55,197<br />
- Minimal 372 22,251 22,623<br />
* Other is a category that is the sum of visits to dentists, optometrists, pharmacists psychologists, social workers and<br />
other health professional not identified.<br />
Collisions handled by the OPP represent 64% of fatal, 29% of injury and 33% of<br />
PDO collisions in Ontario. We used the proportion of collisions handled by OPP officers<br />
and the allocated amounts by collision severity (approximately 49,000, 147,000 and<br />
130,000 hours for fatal, injury and PDO collisions respectively) to extrapolate OPP police<br />
officer time to all collisions and police forces. This method may under-estimate police<br />
involvement; if for example, more than one police force (OPP and a municipal police<br />
force) attended a collision. The result of this analysis of the time spent by police related<br />
to collisions is noted in Exhibit A-14. Note that the model allocates police time using the<br />
unadjusted collision severities (i.e. from police reports) to reflect information available to<br />
the police when deciding how much time to allocate to collisions.<br />
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