Factors associated with severity and hospital admission of motor-vehicle injury cases in a southern European urban area

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 201-208

  Cirera, Eva ^a   Plasència, Antoni ^a,b   Ferrando, Josep ^a   Seguí Gómez, Maria ^c  

^a Municipal Institute of Public Health (IMSP)   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

Hospital admission; Injury severity; Motor vehicle injuries

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EUROPE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLE; MOTORCYCLE; PEDESTRIAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN AREA;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPAIN; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0034790407     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017961921607     Document Type: Article

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