INDICATORS

Calculation:
1) European Injury Database (IDB): the number of accidents recorded in the sample of
hospitals participating the IDB project; the number of cases extrapolated at national level;
expressed as the number of accidents per 1000 inhabitants.
2) Number of respondents having had a home and leisure accident during the past 12
months, derived from EHIS: question HS.7 and HS.8: HS.7 In the past 12 months, have
you had any of the following type of accidents resulting in injury (external or internal)?
4. Home and leisure accident (yes / no). If yes: HS.8 Did you visit a doctor, a nurse or
an emergency department of a hospital as a result of this accident? (Yes, I visited a doctor
or nurse / Yes, I went to an emergency department / No consultation or intervention was
necessary).
3) Hospital treated injuries due to home and leisure accidents. Based on hospital discharges.
WHO-HfA has “Hospital discharges, injury and poisoning per 100 000” (chapter XIX of
ICD-10). EUROSTAT has Hospital discharges due to injury, poisoning and certain other
consequences of external causes (S00–T98). Further work needed.
Notes: Often the incidence rates are presented as 3-year average rates. EHIS does not
discriminate between causes of accidents, but IDB does, in a very detailed way. Hospital
discharges (greatly) underestimate the number of accidents at home and/or freetime.
30. INJURIES: ROAD TRAFFIC
Definition: Incidence of persons injured in road traffic accidents. A road traffic accident is
any accident which occurred or originated on a public road/street or on a private road to
which the public has right of access, in which at least one moving vehicle has participated
and which resulted in one or more persons being injured. Injured means any person who
was not killed but sustained one or more serious or slight injuries as a result of the accident.
Hospitalisation or medical treatment not necessarily required.
Calculation:
1) OECD: Number of people injured in road traffic accidents per 100 000 persons. Road
traffic accident is an accident which occurred or originated on a way or street open to public
traffic and resulted in one or more persons being killed or injured, and at least one moving
vehicle was involved. Injured means any person who was not killed but sustained one or
more serious or slight injuries as a result of the accident.
2) WHO: Road traffic accidents with injury per 100 000 persons (indicator 3150; 110301)
3) Proportion of respondents having had a road traffic accident during the past 12 months,
calculated from EHIS questions HS.7 and HS.8: HS.7 In the past 12 months, have you
had any of the following type of accidents resulting in injury (external or internal)? 1. Road
traffic accident (yes / no). HS.8 Did you visit a doctor, a nurse or an emergency department
of a hospital as a result of this accident? (Yes, I visited a doctor or nurse / Yes, I went to an
emergency department / No consultation or intervention was necessary).
Notes: Often the incidence rates are presented as 3-year averages. The indicator is meant to
deal only with non-fatal events, since deaths from traffic accidents are under the 65 causes
of deaths. Road traffic accidents should include drivers and passengers of motorised vehicles
and pedal cycles as well as pedestrians. Seriousness of the accident: fatal – injury – serious
injury – slight injury (OECD, CARE).
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