Trends in hospitalisation rates for road traffic injuries in child motor vehicle passengers in New South Wales, July 1998 - June 2005

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 187, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 515-518

  Wei, Du ^a   Finch, Caroline F ^b   Hayen, Andrew ^a   Hatfield, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SPINE INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREND STUDY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITALIZATION; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 38449097101     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01393.x     Document Type: Article

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