Severity of playground fractures: Play equipment versus standing height falls

Injury Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 337-339

  Fiissel, D ^a   Pattison, G ^b   Howard, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RECREATION; RISK; SAFETY; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADOLESCENT; CANADA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 29244475363     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2005.009167     Document Type: Article

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