About PERSIAN Post-crash Cohort Study (PTC-POC)
A prospective cohort study, PERSIAN Post-crash Cohort Study (PTC-POC) was inaugurated and integrated as a main part of the nationwide cohort studies titled Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies in Iran, in 2019. The PTC-POC is located in Tabriz City, East Azerbaijan, Iran and conducted by Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences.
Moreover, national extension of the cohort study is developed at post-crash level. In the country, five national candidate universities evaluated based on preliminary conditions such as being equipped with injury/ trauma registry systems will begin data collection in the current year.
Data collection sites
Traffic Health and Safety Clinic, as an occupational medicine and traffic health & safety service provider, offers the clients with different physical and mental health related examinations through practitioner/ psychologist/ psychiatrist visit, screening of sleep disorders, occupational Health services and safety consultation, diagnostic examinations of occupational medicine like spirometry, audiometry in a standard acoustic room, optometry, electrocardiography, and electroencephalography by specialists in occupational medicine. Its target group would be certain professional drivers (drivers of public transportation like taxi, bus, etc.), school bus drivers, applicants for driving licenses, drivers with history of high-risk traffic violations, patients (with a history of stroke, heart attack and so on).
Traffic Lab includes driving simulators as Sahand One Driving Simulator, Sahand Two driving simulator and a portable driving simulator. Different driving behaviors like reaction time, steering wheel's deflection, crash frequency and so on have been examined and recorded via simulators. The lab is equipped with Vienna Test System, Eye tracker, QEEG (to examine the pattern of brain waves in different groups). Furthermore, there are mechanical equipment, electronics related equipment, aerial imaging equipment in order to conduct different examinations and research activities.
Hospital based sites are located in two trauma hospitals (Shohada and Imam Reza) affiliated to TUOMS as the referral hospitals in the north west of the country. Their personnel are involved in entering trauma data as admit at the hospital.