Comparison of reporting of seat belt use by police and crash investigators: Variation in agreement by injury severity

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 961-965

  Schiff, Melissa A ^a   Cummings, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Injury severity score; Seat belts; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

CRASHWORTHINESS DATA SYSTEM (CDS); INJURY SEVERETY SCORE; RISK RATIOS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMOBILE SEAT BELTS; DATA ACQUISITION; HEALTH CARE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; RAILROAD ACCIDENTS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

LAW ENFORCEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY SCALE; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; POLICE; ROC CURVE; SEATBELT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; POLICE; RECORDS; ROC CURVE; SEAT BELTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4344679341     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2003.09.007     Document Type: Article

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