The Association of driver age with traffic injury severity in Wisconsin

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 361-367

  Hanrahan, Robert B ^a   Layde, Peter M ^a   Zhu, Shankuan ^a,b   Guse, Clare E ^a   Hargarten, Stephen W ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Injury; Injury severity score; Motor vehicle crash; Older drivers

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; ODDS RATIO; RISK; SEX FACTORS; WISCONSIN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349252284     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580902973635     Document Type: Article

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