Sleepy driving: Accidents and injury

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 217-227

  Powell, Nelson B ^a,c   Schechtman, Kenneth B ^b   Riley, Robert W ^a   Li, Kasey ^a   Guilleminault, Christian ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FATIGUE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; SLEEP; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 0036517905     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2002.122699     Document Type: Article

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