Mina Golestani, Alireza Razzaghi, Mehdi Rezaei, Leila Vahedi, Faramarz Pourasghar, Mostafa Farahbakhsh, Alireza Shafiee-Kandjani, Mohammad Meshkini, Fatemeh Jahanjoo, Mir Bahador Yazdani, Elham Davtalab Esmaeili, Ali Jafari-Khounigh, Sajjad Ahmadi, Reza Mohammadi, Morteza Ghojazadeh, Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani
PURPOSE: Despite to high burden of road traffic injuries (RTIs), the RTI epidemiology has received less attention with rare investments on robust population cohorts. The PERSIAN Traffic Safety and Health Cohort (PTSHC) was designed to assess the potential causal relationships between human factors and RTI mortality, injuries, severity of the injury, hospitalised injury, violation of traffic law as well as offer the strongest scientific evidence. PARTICIPANTS: The precrash cohort study is carried out in four cities of Tabriz, Jolfa, Shabestar and Osku in East Azerbaijan province located in northwest Iran...
February 12, 2024: BMJ Open