Hand preference and accidents in India

Laterality

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 368-372

  Dutta, Tanusree ^a   Mandal, Manas K ^b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PRONENESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SPORT INJURY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS; ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33745079670     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500600624239     Document Type: Article

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