Are there missed warning signals before traffic-related traumatic spinal cord injury? An exploratory case–control study using electronic health records
Selkin Yılmaz Muluk, Vedat Altuntaş · 2026
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Selkin Yılmaz Muluk and Vedat Altuntaş hunt for warning signs before crash-caused spinal cord injury in a 2026 study. Such injuries are devastating and often follow road crashes. The authors ask whether a person's past pattern of care, sitting in health records, betrays raised risk before the crash.
Using national records, they matched thirty-five injured drivers and motorcyclists, aged eighteen to forty-five, with thirty-five uninjured peers. The injured group had logged more trauma visits to emergency rooms and more psychiatry visits in the two years before. Bone and joint clinic visits did not differ. Emergency visits separated the groups best. The authors float record-based flags as a cheap layer of prevention research.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Selkin Yılmaz Muluk, Vedat Altuntaş |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |