Injury risk to restrained children exposed to deployed first- and second-generation air bags in frontal crashes

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 342-346

  Arbogast, Kristy B ^a,b   Durbin, Dennis R ^a,b   Kallan, Michael J ^a   Elliott, Michael R ^a   Winston, Flaura K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SEATBELT; TELEPHONE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AIR BAGS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAT BELTS;

EID: 16844384828     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.159.4.342     Document Type: Article

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