Attendance at a hospital emergency department by drivers involved in automobile accidents in Italy

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 246-250

  Pileggi, C ^a   Nicotera, G ^a   Angelillo, I F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; DISLOCATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; ITALY; LIMB INJURY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NECK INJURY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPRAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VELOCITY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 17144418612     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2004.018390     Document Type: Article

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