To gain a more complete understanding of motor vehicle injuries and fatalities at the population level, and link existing state health and crash report data, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) partnered with:
- the Colorado State Trauma Registry
- the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
- the Colorado Department of Revenue (CDOR)
- the State of Colorado Traffic Records Advisory Committee (STRAC)
- the Colorado Hospital Association
The project combined Colorado traffic crash data and health data (emergency department, hospital discharge, death, and trauma registry) to identify protective factors and risk factors associated with fatal and non-fatal injuries due to motor vehicle crashes. This project resulted in a series of data briefs, each with a focus on a particular risk, protective factor, and/or a health outcome.
Injury Severity among Persons Injured from Motor Vehicle Crashes using Linked Trauma Registry and Crash Reports, Colorado, 2018-2019
This brief describes injury severity among persons injured in crashes and related crash characteristics, based on linked trauma registry and crash data, using a standard clinical measure of injury severity from the Colorado Trauma Registry.
Substance codes among persons hospitalized from motor vehicle crashes in Colorado, 2018-2019
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) and the Colorado Department of Transportation collaborated on using two existing data sources in this brief: the Colorado Traffic Crash Reports (Crash Reports) from the Colorado Department of Revenue and the billing dataset for hospitalizations from the Colorado Hospital Association (CHA).