Passenger seating position and the risk of passenger death or injury in traffic crashes

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 257-260

  Smith, Kathleen M ^a,b   Cummings, Peter ^b,c  

^a Mary Bridge Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Multiple imputation; Passenger seat position; Poisson regression; Traffic crashes

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE SEATS; CRASHWORTHINESS; HEALTH RISKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COHORT STUDY; TRAFFIC CRASHES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAR; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEATBELT; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOMOBILES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAT BELTS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0344465923     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(03)00002-2     Document Type: Article

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