The epidemiology of traumatic injury-related fetal mortality in Pennsylvania, 1995-1997: The role of motor vehicle crashes

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 449-454

  Weiss, Harold B ^a  

^a Ctr for Violence and Injury Control   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal mortality; Maternal injury; Motor vehicle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; MALE; PENNSYLVANIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0035384917     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(00)00058-0     Document Type: Article

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