The effect of education and home safety equipment on childhood thermal injury prevention: Meta-analysis and meta-regression

Injury Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 197-204

  Kendrick, D ^a   Smith, S ^a   Sutton, A J ^b   Mulvaney, C ^a   Watson, M ^a   Coupland, C ^a   Mason Jones, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c WESTERN CAPE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CHILD; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FIRE; FIRE PROTECTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEAT; HOME ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WATER SUPPLY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS, HOME; ADOLESCENT; BURNS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; FIRE EXTINGUISHING SYSTEMS; FIRES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649158739     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2008.020677     Document Type: Article

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