How members of the public interpret the word accident

Injury Prevention

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-25

  Girasek, D C ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident; National survey; Public; Terminology

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; NOMENCLATURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0033093151     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.5.1.19     Document Type: Article

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