Matching fatal accident reporting system cases with national center for health statistics motor vehicle deaths
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2005, Accident Analysis and PreventionCitation Excerpt :Per an agreement between NHTSA and NCHS, linked FARS-MCOD files are not generally available in the public domain, as are other files (Judy Hilton, personal communication). In the absence of death certificate numbers to facilitate direct linkage with the NCHS MCOD file, researchers studying motor vehicle mortality disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations in individual States have probabilistically linked race and ethnicity data from the MCOD file using date of death, State of death, age, gender, and other data elements available from FARS public domain files, often supplemented with data from State-level sources such as trauma registries (Fife, 1989; Campos-Outcalt et al., 1997, 2002, 2003; Harper et al., 2000). Apart from potentially prohibitive costs of such linkage for large study populations, a major limitation of this approach is that only about 75 to 85% of FARS fatalities can be matched to the MCOD (Fife, 1989; Campos-Outcalt et al., 1997, 2002, 2003; Harper et al., 2000).
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2002, Accident Analysis and PreventionCitation Excerpt :The FARS database contains data from 1975 onward. Many variables contained in FARS are not available in other national databases (Fife, 1989), making this database the most comprehensive tool to study fatal crashes. Although there are some biases in the reporting of the information, the quantity of information coded in the database, and number of crashes recorded allows for the control of many potential confounders, and for the calculation of crash estimates more easily generalizable to the general population (Barr et al., 1993).
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