Injuries from bicycle accidents presenting to an emergency department in NSW, Australia

Cause, type and severities of bicycle injuries amongst adult cyclists presenting to a NSW emergency department

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12617001464358

Acronym

Bicycle injuries study (BIS)

Enrollment

144

Registered

2017-10-16

Start date

2017-05-04

Completion date

2019-05-04

Last updated

2018-11-12

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Cycling-related injuries, including minor injuries that are largely hidden from other reporting methods, are over-represented in emergency departments. This opens up opportunity for more focused & inclusive analysis of this population of patients. The Bicycle Injuries Study (BIS) aims to identify, describe and quantify the patterns of cause, type and severity of cycling crash injuries, within the adult population, as they present to the Emergency Department of Royal North Shore Hospital in NSW; the trial will be based on extraction and analysis of emergency department medical record data relating to the crash circumstances, resulting injuries & treatment. Collecting data from emergency department records in this way will allow for the creation of an integrated database that grounds cycling injuries in the context of our current road environments, potentially revealing new targets for injury prevention.

Interventions

Patients who sustain an injury as a result of an accident involving a bicycle will have data obtained from their medical record relating only to the crash circumstances, resulting injuries and treatment. As such, each participant is only to be observed once, with no further follow up.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients are invited to participate if they meet all of the following criteria: aged 18 years or older; present to the emergency department at Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) in NSW in the trial recruitment period due to injuries following involvement in an accident caused by a bicycle, as either a rider or pedestrian; treating doctor has assessed them as being fit to provide medical consent

Exclusion criteria

The following patients are to be excluded: under the age of 18 years of age; those not deemed fit to participate & give informed medical consent by their treating doctor; those who do not consent to participate

Outcome results