TY - JOUR
AU - Mohammadi M.
AU - Rad M.
AU - Martiniuk A.
AU - Ansari-Moghaddam A.
AU - Rashedi F.
AU - Ghjasemi A.
AU - Ahangari H.
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OBJECTIVES: To investigate post-crash time management by police. METHODS: The retrospective study comprised data related to all road traffic crashes from March 2009 to March 2010 in Sistan and Baluchistan province of Iran. Data was retrieved from the standard national form designed for road traffic crashes completed by police officers present at the scene. SPSS 15 was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: The median time for police to be informed in the total 2442 accidents was 10 minutes and the police response time was 15-20 minutes for non-fatal cases, while the corresponding duration for fatal cases was 15 minutes and 30 minutes (p &lt; 0.001). Police arrival was not dependent on road condition (p=0.178). DISCUSSION: Police arrival at the crash scene was beyond the average response time by Emergency Medical Services in Iran. It is vital to provide quicker ways of informing the police and to have more police stations along the highways.
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AD - Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. mahdiehrad1980@yahoo.com<br/>The George Institute for Global Health at the University of Sydney, Australia.<br/>Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.<br/>Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.
AN - 24397099
BT - Journal of Pakistan Medical Association
DP - NLM
ET - 9 January 2014
LA - eng
M1 - 12
N1 - Mohammadi, Mahdi<br/>Martiniuk, Alexandra Lynda Conboy<br/>Ansari-Moghaddam, Alireza<br/>Rad, Mahdieh<br/>Rashedi, Fariborz<br/>Ghjasemi, Ardavan<br/>Ahangari, Hossein<br/>Pakistan<br/>J Pak Med Assoc. 2013 Dec;63(12):1523-7.
N2 - <p>
OBJECTIVES: To investigate post-crash time management by police. METHODS: The retrospective study comprised data related to all road traffic crashes from March 2009 to March 2010 in Sistan and Baluchistan province of Iran. Data was retrieved from the standard national form designed for road traffic crashes completed by police officers present at the scene. SPSS 15 was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: The median time for police to be informed in the total 2442 accidents was 10 minutes and the police response time was 15-20 minutes for non-fatal cases, while the corresponding duration for fatal cases was 15 minutes and 30 minutes (p &lt; 0.001). Police arrival was not dependent on road condition (p=0.178). DISCUSSION: Police arrival at the crash scene was beyond the average response time by Emergency Medical Services in Iran. It is vital to provide quicker ways of informing the police and to have more police stations along the highways.
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PY - 2013
SN - 0030-9982 (Print) - 0030-9982 (Linking)
SP - 1523
EP - 7
T2 - Journal of Pakistan Medical Association
TI - Police response time to road crashes in south-east of Iran
VL - 63
ER -