Road accident statistics: Discrepancies between police and hospital data in a French island

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 101-108

  Aptel, Isabelle ^a   Salmi, L Rachid ^b   Masson, Françoise ^c   Bourdé, Arnaud ^d   Henrion, Guy ^d   Erny, Philippe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d Hospital de Sanit Denis   (France)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Evaluation; Road injuries; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REUNION; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECORDS; REUNION;

EID: 0032609421     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0001-4575(98)00051-7     Document Type: Article

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