TY - JOUR T1 - Counting secondary injuries on national estimates: the road to multiple injury profiles JF - Injury Prevention JO - Inj Prev SP - 71 LP - 72 DO - 10.1136/ip.2009.025528 VL - 16 IS - 1 AU - Limor Aharonson-Daniel Y1 - 2010/02/01 UR - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/16/1/71.3.abstract N2 - I read with pleasure the article ‘The effect of counting principal and secondary injuries on national estimates of motor vehicle related trauma’.1 The 67% increase in the count of injuries and the variability by patient and injury characteristics reaffirms findings offered previously.2 The importance of the use of multiple diagnoses for injury epidemiology, as demonstrated in table 4 of the study, has also been acknowledged … ER -