Helmet rental practices at United States ski areas: A national survey

Injury Prevention

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 317-321

  Clingenpeel, Joel M ^a   Marshall, S W ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEAD INJURY; HELMET; HUMAN; INJURY; MULTICENTER STUDY; SKIING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

COMMERCE; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; SKIING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1542753411     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.9.4.317     Document Type: Article

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