Preventing pediatric pedestrian injuries

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1492-1499

  Hotz, Gillian ^a   Kennedy, Amy ^a   Lutfi, Khaleeq ^a   Cohn, Stephen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMATOTHORAX; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PEDESTRIAN; PELVIS INJURY; PERIPHERAL VISION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNITED STATES; VISUAL ACUITY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; REVIEW; SAFETY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; WALKING;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WALKING;

EID: 67649646551     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31819d9c9b     Document Type: Note

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