The incidence of race-day jockey falls in Australia, 2002-2006

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 83-86

  Hitchens, Peta L ^a   Blizzard, C Leigh ^a   Jones, Graeme ^a   Day, Lesley M ^b   Fell, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FALLING; FATALITY; FRANCE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRELAND; JAPAN; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 59349095931     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02284.x     Document Type: Article

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