The effect of seatbelt use on injury patterns, disposition, and hospital charges for elders

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1411-1416

  Coley, Andrew ^a   Partridge, Robert ^a,b   Kaylor, Cynthia ^a   Shapiro, Marc ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Elders; Motor vehicles; Outcome; Seatbelt

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEATBELT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHODE ISLAND; SEAT BELTS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0036895506     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.9.12.1411     Document Type: Article

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