Near miss and minor injury information - Can it be used to plan and evaluate injury prevention programmes?

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 345-354

  Marsh, Patricia ^a   Kendrick, Denise ^b  

^a Roundwood Surgery   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child; Diary; Injury prevention; Minor injuries; Near miss

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0034181488     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(99)00054-8     Document Type: Article

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