Traffic dangerous drugs are often found in fatally injured older male drivers

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1029-1031

  Johansson, Kurt ^a   Bryding, Göran ^b   Dahl, Marja Liisa ^a   Holmgren, Per ^c   Viitanen, Matti ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Division of Clinical Pharmacology Karolinska Institutet Stockholm ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CHLORMEZANONE; CHLOROQUINE; CHLORZOXAZONE; CITALOPRAM; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DIAZEPAM; DILTIAZEM; EPHEDRINE; FLUNITRAZEPAM; HYDROXYZINE; MELPERONE; MOCLOBEMIDE; NITRAZEPAM; ORPHENADRINE; OXAZEPAM; PARACETAMOL; PHENAZONE; PHENYTOIN; QUININE; TAMOXIFEN; THEOPHYLLINE; TRICHLOROETHANOL; TRIMETHOPRIM; VERAPAMIL;

AGED; DRIVING ABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG USE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MORTALITY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC MEDICINE; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAZEPAM; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXYZINE; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; NITRAZEPAM; PROPOXYPHENE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0030753928     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1997.tb02979.x     Document Type: Letter

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