Effect of Periodic Vehicle Inspection on Road Crashes and Injuries: A Systematic Review
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Martín de los Reyes, Luis Miguel; Lardelli Claret, Pablo; García Cuerva, Laura; Rivera Izquierdo, Mario; Jiménez Mejías, Eladio; Martínez Ruiz, Virginia AnaEditorial
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Vehicle inspection Road crash Road injury Motor vehicles
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2021-06-15Referencia bibliográfica
Martín-delosReyes, L.M... [et al.]. Effect of Periodic Vehicle Inspection on Road Crashes and Injuries: A Systematic Review. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 6476. [https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126476]
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SEMERGEN-UGR Chair of Teaching and Research in Family Medicine (School of Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain)Resumen
This systematic review was conducted to determine the effect of periodic motor vehicle
inspections on road crashes and injuries, compared to less exposure to periodic inspections or no
inspections. The Medline,Web of Science, and Scopus databases were used to search the literature.
Ecological studies were specifically excluded. A reverse search of the results with these databases
and of other identified narrative reviews was also performed. Of the 5065 unique references initially
extracted, only six of them met the inclusion criteria and were selected for review: one experimental
study, two cohort studies with an internal comparison group, two cohort studies without a comparison
group, and one case–control study. Two authors independently extracted the information
and assessed the quality of each study. Due to the heterogeneity of the designs and the intervention
or comparison groups used, quantitative synthesis of the results was not attempted. Except for the
case–control study, which showed a significant association between road crashes and the absence
of a valid vehicle inspection certificate, the other studies showed either a small reduction in crash
rates (around 9%), no association, or a higher crash rate in vehicles with more inspections. In all
observational studies, the risk of residual confounding bias was significant and could have explained
the results. Therefore, although the research reviewed here suggests that periodic inspection may be
associated with a slight reduction in road crashes, the marked heterogeneity along with probable
residual confounding in most reports prevented us from establishing causality for this association.