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Analysis and Estimation of the Social Cost of Motor Vehicle Collisions in Ontario<br />

fatalities not reported in ORSAR. A later section discusses how these extra fatalities are<br />

allocated in the model.<br />

b) Additional injuries reported by hospitals and in a re-analysis of Chipman<br />

Data in ORSAR on the number of injuries and their severity are derived from<br />

police reports filled out at the scene of the collision or shortly after the collision.<br />

Attending police officers will have information on those who are transported directly to<br />

hospital (major and minor injuries) and may have information although potentially not<br />

complete on those admitted to hospital (major injuries). They will have information on<br />

others who report injuries not requiring transport to hospital (minimal injuries) at the<br />

collision scene. Police will follow-up with hospitals to find out the extent of injuries and<br />

will amend reports as necessary. However, police will not have information and reports<br />

will not record those individuals who subsequently develop symptoms of injury. These<br />

injuries may include minimal injuries, requiring no or limited medical intervention, minor<br />

injuries, requiring an emergency room visit, or major injuries, involving hospital stays.<br />

Since police reports are the basis of ORSAR data, which in turn form the raw data used in<br />

our model, these counts of injuries are unlikely to reflect the full extent of injuries<br />

resulting from motor vehicle collisions.<br />

To account for under-reporting of injuries we rely on two sources of information.<br />

The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOH&LTC) captures use of medical<br />

facilities such as emergency room visits and the characteristics of hospital stays (hospital<br />

separations and duration) against codes identifying the reason for the injury. A number of<br />

these codes are specific to motor vehicle collisions that would be HTA reportable. 1 The<br />

second source of information is the analysis conducted by Mary Chipman 2 of the 1990<br />

Ontario Health Survey. In it she estimates the number of collision-related injuries for<br />

Ontario residents in 1990 based on survey data. Adjustments are required to bring the<br />

Chipman analysis in line with the definitions of our study particularly to restrict collisions<br />

to those that involve a motor vehicle and are HTA reportable.<br />

c) Additional major and minor injuries<br />

We obtained a special run of MOH&LTC data for fiscal years 2003/2004 and<br />

2004/2005. This run considered individuals’ use of hospital facilities involving the<br />

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) motor vehicle traffic accident codes 3 :<br />

1 The Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) is used.<br />

2 Chipman, Mary L., "Health Service Use Attributable to Injury in Traffic Crashes: Data from a Population<br />

Survey," 36th Annual Proceedings, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, October<br />

5-7, 1992, Portland, Oregon.<br />

3 We used the same codes as used by ORSAR with the exclusion of V83.4 (Person injured while boarding<br />

or alighting from special industrial vehicle), V84.4 (Person injured while boarding or alighting from<br />

special agricultural vehicle), V85.4 (Person injured while boarding or alighting from special construction<br />

vehicle), and V86.4. Person injured while boarding or alighting from all-terrain or other off-road motor<br />

vehicle.<br />

16 TNS Canadian Facts, Social and Policy Research

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