Defining the "older" crash victim: The relationship between age and serious injury in motor vehicle crashes

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1498-1505

  Newgard, Craig D ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Injury; Injury pattern; Motor vehicle crash

Indexed keywords

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE (AIS); COHORT STUDIES; COVARIATES; DATA SYSTEM DATABASE; MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES; MULTIVARIABLE REGRESSION; SAMPLING SYSTEMS; SERIOUS INJURIES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 46149088683     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2008.03.010     Document Type: Article

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