Factors associated with higher levels of injury severity in occupants of motor vehicles that were severely damaged in traffic crashes in Kentucky, 2000-2001

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 144-150

  Singleton, Michael ^a   Qin, Huifang ^a   Luan, Jingyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Linkage; Injury Severity; Motor Vehicle Crash; Ordinal Logistic Regression; Risk Factors; Severe Vehicle Damage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DRIVING ABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FATALITY; FEMALE; FIRE; GOVERNMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK FACTOR; SEX; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUTOMOBILES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KENTUCKY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 3042541606     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580490435169     Document Type: Article

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