Supervisor: Prof. Kirsten Vallmuur

Co-Supervisors: Dr. Victoria McCreanor, Dr. Matthew Hope

Thesis title:  From roadside to recovery: Long-term burden and cost of transport-related injuries impacting the Queensland healthcare system

Thesis Summary: Treatment and recovery times following injury can be lengthy, comprising multiple interactions with the hospital system for initial acute care, subsequent rehabilitation, and possible readmission for follow-up care. For injuries sustained in transport crashes, the recovery journey may also include contact with injury compensation insurers. Until recently, data from each phase of care have been siloed, however, a push by government to increase value and use of secondary data sources, has created impetus for longitudinal research using linked data. The aim of this research is to develop a data linkage framework that encapsulates the patient treatment journey through the health and injury compensation systems following transport-related injury.