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Cuadernos de Medicina Forense
On-line version ISSN 1988-611XPrint version ISSN 1135-7606
Abstract
GARAMENDI, P.M. and LANDA, M.I.. Approach to the analysis of the main characteristics of forensic evaluation regarding the Whiplash Syndrome after traffic accidents in Vizcaya: A retrospective study of expert reports during 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2002. Cuad. med. forense [online]. 2003, n.32, pp.19-34. ISSN 1988-611X.
We present a review of patients diagnosed of WAD (Whiplash Associated Disorders) after traffic accidents and examined in the Bilbao Forensic Medicine Department (400 cases). We aimed to define the following data: main demographic profiles, traffic accident profile, period of latency between the accident and clinical diagnosis; healing period, disability period and the clinical state remaining at the date of discharge. Also, we have investigated possible "yellow flags" and possible differences between annual periods.
Keywords : whiplash syndrome; traffic accidents; forensic medicine; Vizcaya; expert reports.