Evaluation of the Incidence of Morbidity and Mortality of Persons Injured in Traffic Accidents in the Belgrade Region in Relation to Place, Time and Participants

Musculoskeletal injury with predominance of road traffic casualties has become a major cause of death and disability among population, particularly in developing countries. This could be explained due to increased use of motorized transport, decreased introduction of modern vehicles with improved safety, underrepresentation of road types in the country road network and less developed trauma care systems. Thorough analyses of both hospital and police data, would assure estimation of the actual incidence and grade of road traffic casualties and of their injury pattern. The project is designed to cover analyses of all injured in traffic accidents from 2000 to 2009, and to establish database which would contain patients from above mentioned time period and future patients including next four-year period. The evaluation of management and treatment of musculoskeletal trauma in the first, secondary and tertiary level of the health care system, with following analyses of frequency and type of traffic accidents, should assure adequate planning of the trauma health care center locations with proposal of new health care policy for the treatment of the musculoskeletal trauma. Analyses of the project results and results from Europe Union countries would reveal actual situation and significance of road traffic accidents. Overall, this would introduce improvements in developing of prevention programmes from aspects of both health care system and road traffic safety.