Emergency presentations by vulnerable road users: Implications for injury prevention

Injury Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 12-14

  Meuleners, L B ^a   Lee, A H ^b   Haworth, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BICYCLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MOTORCYCLE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; BICYCLING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MOTORCYCLES; POLICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WALKING; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33144476112     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2005.010389     Document Type: Article

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