Dog bites: How big a problem?

Injury Prevention

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 52-54

  Sacks, Jeffrey J ^a   Kresnow, Marcie Jo ^b   Houston, Barbara ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL   (United States)

^b Office of Statistics and Programming   (United States)

Author keywords

Dog bites; Surveillance; Telephone survey

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BITES AND STINGS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOG; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; SAMPLING STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030089865     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2.1.52     Document Type: Article

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