Parental decisions to use infant walkers

Injury Prevention

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 299-300

  Bar on, Miriam E ^a   Boyle, Russell M ^a   Endriss, E Kay ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INJURY; PARENT; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INFANT EQUIPMENT; PARENTS; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0032245269     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.4.4.299     Document Type: Article

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