Risk Factors for Fatal Residential Fires

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 327, Issue 12, 1992, Pages 859-863

  Runyan, Carol W ^a   Bangdiwala, Shrikant I ^a   Linzer, Mary A ^a   Sacks, Jeffrey J ^b   Butts, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (North Carolina)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BURN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FIRE; FIRE PROTECTION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HOME ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FIRES; HEATING; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFANT; MIDDLE AGE; MORTALITY; NORTH CAROLINA; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0026758822     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199209173271207     Document Type: Article

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