Driver Sleepiness and Risk of Car Crashes in Shenyang, a Chinese Northeastern City: Population-based Case-control Study

Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 219-226

  Liu, Gai Fen ^a,d   Han, Song ^b   Liang, Duo Hong ^b   Wang, Feng Zhi ^b   Shi, Xin Zhu ^b   Yu, Jian ^c   Wu, Zheng Lai ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b SHENYANG MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c Shenyang Traffic Administration   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Car crash; Case control study; Driver sleepiness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOMNOLENCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0242329833     PISSN: 08953988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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