Injury severity assessment for car occupants in frontal impacts, using disability scaling

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-103

  Norin, Hans ^a,b   Krafft, Maria ^c   Korner, Johnny ^a   Nygren, Åke ^c,d   Tingvall, Claes ^c,d  

^a VOLVO CAR CORPORATION   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Stockholm and Folksam Research   (Sweden)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crash severity; Disability; Disability scale; Frontal impacts; Impairment; Impairment scale

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLASSIFICATION; DISABILITY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECK INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL INJURY; SWEDEN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOMOBILES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0031050797     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(96)00319-8     Document Type: Article

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