Influence of the unbelted rear-seat passenger on driver mortality: "The backseat bullet"

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 130-134

  Mayrose, James ^a,c   Jehle, Dietrich ^a   Hayes, Marc ^a   Tinnesz, Dylan ^a   Piazza, Gina ^a   Wilding, Gregory E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

mortality; motor vehicle crash; seat belt

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRIVER; FATALITY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SEAT; SEATBELT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; CAR DRIVER; COHORT ANALYSIS; GROUPS BY AGE; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNBELTED REAR SEAT PASSENGER;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEAT BELTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 12844267024     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.09.017     Document Type: Article

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