The relation between the use of psychoactive substances and the severity of the injury in a group of crash-involved drivers admitted to a regional trauma center

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 105-108

  Smink, B E ^a   Movig, K L L ^b   Lusthof, K J ^a   De Gier, J J ^c,d   Uges, D R A ^e   Egberts, A C G ^d,f  

^a NETHERLANDS FORENSIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Drugs; Injury Severity score; Traffic accident

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URINE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 41849089721     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580701824443     Document Type: Article

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