Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
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Review Comparative Study
Comparing responsible and non-responsible drivers to assess determinants of road traffic collisions: time to standardise and revisit.
In 1994, Robertson and Drummer formalised the responsibility analysis as an alternative to case-control studies in the study of road traffic crashes. Our objective was to assess whether published responsibility studies respected standards defining adequate case-control studies. ⋯ Basic requirements of case-control studies are often not or not clearly met in responsibility studies. There is a need to revisit the method and to adapt existing publication standards to the way responsibility studies are reported.