Hazards of baby walkers in a European context

Injury Prevention

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 118-120

  Petridou, Eleni ^a,b   Simou, Efi ^a   Skondras, Constantinos ^c   Pistevos, George ^d   Lagos, Panagiotis ^e   Papoutsakis, George ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d P AND A KYRIAKOU CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society   (Greece)

^f Ministry of Health and Welfare   (Greece)

Author keywords

Baby walkers; Consumer products; Hazards; Health professionals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; SAFETY; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT EQUIPMENT; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0030154534     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2.2.118     Document Type: Article

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