Preexisting medical conditions (PMC) in the elderly are associated with increased mortality after low to moderate severity injuries, but not after more severe injuries [ 30].
Understanding the underlying relationship between pedestrian injury severity outcomes and factors leading to more severe injuries is very important in addressing the problem of pedestrian safety.
Moore et al 31 found women to have more severe injuries, but others have found higher severities in men.
Age showed consistent associations across all severity metrics; older age groups had more severe injuries, significantly so for ambulance transport, admission to hospital and CTAS.
The effect was corroborated by an injury severity study that found that crashes resulting in more severe injuries were significantly associated with unlit roads at night [ 69].
Several studies have reported higher injury rates for boys, but more severe injuries for girls [ 1, 2, 7].
We see many children with more severe injuries".
Students with more severe injuries were rushed to hospital by good samaritans.
More severe injuries require more aggressive treatment and often take two to three months to heal.
Dr. Hutchinson also notes that cheerleaders, the vast majority of whom are girls or women, tend to incur more severe injuries than other athletes.
As we returned with the stretcher party, another IED, placed on a route cleared just a few hours previously, exploded, causing more severe injuries.
