Citation

Dischinger PC, Cowley RA. Proc. Assoc. Adv. Automot. Med. Annu. Conf. 1989; 33: 17-28.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine)

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Abstract

Estimates of alcohol use among non-fatal accidents remain biased by selective BAC testing. The National Accident Sampling System (NASS), relies on a sampling of accident and police reports to obtain estimates of alcohol-involved accidents. Alcohol testing, while not routinely obtained by the police, is routinely obtained on patients admitted to some trauma centers. Although this population is a select group at one end of the spectrum of injury severity, information on these crashes, obtained from police reports, gives some insight into the validity of police-reported estimates of alcohol use.