Limitations of child injury data from the CPSC's national electronic injury surveillance system: The case of baby walker related data

Injury Prevention

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-66

  Weiss, Harold B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Baby walkers; Consumer product safety; Emergency department; Population surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; SAFETY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WALKING AID;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES; WALKERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0030089662     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2.1.61     Document Type: Article

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