Aging is not a risk factor for femoral and tibial fractures in motor vehicle crashes

Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine - 52nd Annual Scientific Conference

Volumn 52, Issue , 2008, Pages 227-233

  Ryb, Gabriel ^a   Dischinger, Patricia ^a   Kleinberger, Michael ^b   Burch, Cynthia ^a   Ho, Shiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRASH INJURY RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING NETWORKS; FEMORAL FRACTURES; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES; MULTIPLE LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; T-TESTS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MEDICINE; VEHICLES;

FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TIBIA FRACTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849157957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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