Motor vehicle fatalities among men in the U.S. army from 1980 to 1997

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 926-931

  Krull, Andrea R ^a   Jones, Bruce H ^a   Dellinger, Ann M ^a   Yore, Michelle M ^b   Amoroso, Paul J ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SOLDIER; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 16644383778     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.11.926     Document Type: Article

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