Ongoing Survey on Accidents in Daily Life (EPAC)

The EPAC survey aims to provide detailed, reliable, and up-to-date descriptive data on the number and characteristics of everyday accidents (AcVC) occurring in France that result in the need for emergency hospital care. The survey was initially established in 1986 and constitutes the French component of the European Ehlass surveillance network, which has been extended, under various survey protocols, to all fifteen countries of the European Union.

Using the EPAC database, which centralizes data collected from the emergency departments of metropolitan hospitals in the network (10 hospitals in 2012), this application provides tables that cross-tabulate the gender and age of accident victims with the type of accident. Filters can be applied to the following variables: location, activity, injury, injured body part, and care provided to the injured person.

When interpreting the figures, one must take into account that only a limited number of hospitals participate in the data collection: about ten out of 650 emergency departments. These figures are good indicators of everyday accidents, but cannot be considered representative of metropolitan France.

Given the numerous variables and filtering options, the decision was made to provide two tables: one containing the number of accident victims in the selected group, and the other the total number of accident victims in the database. This simplified presentation thus allows the user to calculate the percentages they wish.

In addition to these item-based selections, it is also possible to select products (that caused accidents or were involved in accidents) or specific accident scenarios.

EPAC Network Meeting, October 17, 2017

Presentations

EPAC Network Meeting, May 27, 2016

Presentations

  • Objectives and organization of the day – B. Thélot

  • News from the EPAC network, inclusion, coding, quality, consolidation – G. Pédrono

  • Overall results, online survey, responses to inquiries – G. Pédrono, B. Thélot

  • Accidents among children under 1 year of age in the emergency department of Le Havre University Hospital – B. Lacarra, S. Guyet (Le Havre University Hospital)

  • Accidents in the pediatric emergency department in Marseille – N. Roux

  • Trampoline accidents at the Purpan University Hospital in Toulouse – B. San-Cirilo (Toulouse University Hospital)

  • Trampoline accidents in EPAC and ORAT – G. Pédrono

  • Traumas related to falls from trees in children at the Toulouse University Hospital – M. Chanut (Toulouse University Hospital)

  • Hospitalizations for head trauma (HT) based on PMSI data – A. Dupont

  • ORAT: Progress Report and Initial Findings on Head Injuries – B. Gadegbeku, A. NDiaye, H. Tardy (Ifsttar)

  • Epidemiology of hospitalized burn victims based on PMSI data – LM. Paget

  • Workplace Accident Monitoring Indicators – J. Brière

  • MAVIE Observatory: initial results – M. Dupuy (Calyxis)

  • 2015 NOYADES Survey – L. Lasbeur

  • Population surveys: health and social protection surveys, school surveys – LM. Paget

  • French Longitudinal Study of Childhood: Elfe Cohort – AL. Perrine

  • Child deaths due to trauma – L. Lasbeur

  • Falls among older adults at home: ChuPADom – L. Lasbeur

  • Prevention of sports injuries – S. Borrel, R. Bossat (Sports Department)

2nd EPAC-ORAT Seminar, May 21, 2015

Program

2nd EPAC-ORAT Seminar – Ongoing Survey on Accidents in Daily Life (EPAC) – Rhône-Alpes Trauma Observatory (ORAT), Thursday, May 21, 2015

Presentations

  • ORAT Organization. Amina Ndiaye, Blandine Gadegbeku – Ifsttar

  • Organization of the EPAC survey. Gaëlle Pédrono – InVS

  • ORAT Results: Description of Accidents in Daily Life Among Children Under 15. Hélène Tardy – Ifsttar

  • EPAC results: general findings, online survey, and responses to inquiries. Gaëlle Pédrono – InVS

  • EPAC-based ancillary study: falls among older adults at home. Linda Lasbeur, Gaëlle Pédrono – InVS

  • Development of indicators for monitoring work-related traffic accidents in France. Julien Brière – InVS

  • Work-related traffic accidents: challenges, nature, and severity of injuries. Blandine Gadegbeku – Ifsttar

  • Population-based surveys on accidents. Bertrand Thélot – InVS

  • Health Barometer of the National Institute for Prevention and Health Education (Inpes): Accidents and falls among people aged 55–85. Christophe Léon – Inpes

  • Inpes Health Barometer: Factors Contributing to Accident Risk. Jean-Baptiste Richard – Inpes

  • Severe head injuries resulting from traffic accidents: data from the Rhône Registry (1996–2012). Amina Ndiaye – Ifsttar

  • Outcomes for road traffic accident victims with mild head injuries: a 5-year follow-up of the Esparr cohort (Follow-up study of a population of road traffic accident victims in the Rhône region). Martine Hours – Ifsttar

  • Epidemiological surveillance of head injuries. Linda Lasbeur, Bertrand Thélot – InVS

  • Classification of bicycle accidents. Emmanuelle Amoros – Ifsttar

  • Implementation of surveillance systems: drowning, fatal accidents among children, burn victims. Linda Lasbeur – InVS

  • Effective interventions for the prevention of everyday accidents (AcVC) among children. Viet Nguyen-Thanh – Inpes

  • Measures for preventing AcVC. Nathalie Houzelle, Félicie David

1st EPAC-ORAT Seminar, June 12, 2014

Program

1st EPAC-ORAT Seminar – Ongoing Survey on Accidents of Daily Life (EPAC) – Rhône-Alpes Trauma Observatory (ORAT), Thursday, June 12, 2014

Presentations

  • Trauma surveillance systems in the Rhône-Alpes region. Amina Ndiaye – Ifsttar

  • The Development of Epidemiological Surveillance of Accidents of Daily Life (AcVC). Bertrand Thélot – InVS

  • Ongoing Survey on Accidents in Daily Life (EPAC): data collection tools, developments, and data consolidation. Gaëlle Pédrono – InVS

  • Rhône-Alpes Trauma Observatory (ORAT): organization, data collection methods, tools. Blandine Gadegbeku, Amina Ndiaye – Ifsttar

  • Inclusion criteria: presentation and discussion of LSA cases. Gaëlle Pédrono – InVS

  • Coding rules, use of nomenclatures: presentation and discussion of stroke cases. Gaëlle Pédrono – InVS

  • EPAC: results by “accident type.” Gaëlle Pédrono – InVS

  • ORAT: Initial analyses on stroke. Laëtitia Chossegros, Hélène Tardy – Ifsttar

  • Epidemiological surveillance of stroke: EPAC and other studies. Bertrand Thélot – InVS

  • Mortality from stroke. Linda Lasbeur – InVS

  • Drowning. Linda Lasbeur – InVS

  • Hospitalizations for burns. Anne Pasquereau – InVS

  • Traffic accidents and all ORAT accidents: the example of 20- to 24-year-olds. Blandine Gadegbeku – Ifsttar

  • Estimates of stroke incidence through modeling. Christophe Bonaldi – InVS

  • Incidence estimates for traffic accidents. Emmanuelle Amoros – Ifsttar

  • Future synergies and collaboration between InVS and Ifsttar in accidentology: joint study and research projects. Bertrand Thélot – InVS