Risk of injury to restrained children from passenger air bags

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 58-63

  Durbin, Dennis R ^a,b   Kallan, Michael ^b   Elliott, Michael ^b   Cornejo, Rebecca A ^b   Arbogast, Kristy B ^a   Winston, Flaura K ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air Bag; Child Passenger Safety; Crash Injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CRUSH TRAUMA; DRIVER; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TELEPHONE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIR BAGS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT EQUIPMENT; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAT BELTS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0037341317     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580309853     Document Type: Article

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