Alcohol in aviation-related fatalities: North Carolina, 1985-1994

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 755-760

  Li, Guohua ^a   Hooten, Elizabeth Gerken ^b   Baker, Susan P ^c   Butts, John D ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Office of the Chief Medical Examiner   (United States)

^d IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; AIRPLANE CREW; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLIGHT; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; SAFETY;

EID: 0031905097     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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