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Association of the new zero-tolerance drinking and driving law with hospitalization rate due to road traffic injuries in Brazil.
Souza, Cássia Rebeca de Lima; Russo, Letícia Xander; da Silva, Everton Nunes.
Afiliação
  • Souza CRL; Postgraduate Program for Collective Health, University of Brasilia, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Brasília, DF, 70910-900, Brazil. cassiarls@outlook.com.
  • Russo LX; Department of Economics, Federal University of Grande Dourados, Dourados, Brazil.
  • da Silva EN; Faculty of Ceilândia, University of Brasilia, Brasília, Brazil.
Sci Rep ; 12(1): 5447, 2022 03 31.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35361819
We investigated the association of the new zero-tolerance drinking and driving law (Law 12,760, Dec. 2012) with hospital admissions due to road traffic injuries in Brazil by using interrupted time series from 2008 to 2019. We used linear regression designed to adjust for autocorrelation and Cumby-Huizinga test for residual autocorrelation. Newey-West standard errors was used to handle heteroscedasticity. We used ICD-10 codes for land transport accidents (V01-V89). The hospitalization rate was calculated per 100,000 inhabitants. The sources were the Hospital Information System and the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics. Pre- and postintervention consist of 59 and 85 months, respectively. For Brazil, the hospitalization rate was associated with a reduction of 0.34 (p = 0.097; 95% CI - 0.74 to 0.06) in the first month of the intervention (Dec. 2012), followed by a significant change in the hospitalization trend. Compared to the period prior to the intervention, the monthly trend was associated with a reduction of 0.05 (p < 0.01; 95% CI - 0.06 to - 0.04) in the post period. These results stand in agreement with subgroup analyses for the Brazilian regions, although North and Northeast regions did not immediately reduce hospitalization rates (level change). Our results suggested that 440,599 hospitalizations for land transport accidents would be averted by the new zero-tolerance drinking and driving law from Dec. 2012 to Dec. 2019 in Brazil. Even using a quasi-experimental approach, our findings must be interpreted with caution due to observational design and registration flaws surrounding our data.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Dirigir sob a Influência Tipo de estudo: Risk_factors_studies Limite: Humans País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: Sci Rep Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Reino Unido

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Dirigir sob a Influência Tipo de estudo: Risk_factors_studies Limite: Humans País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: Sci Rep Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Reino Unido