Opium consumption and the risk of traffic injuries in regular users: A case-crossover study in an emergency department

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 325-329

  Majdzadeh, Reza ^a   Feiz Zadeh, Ali ^a   Rajabpour, Zahra ^a   Motevalian, Abbas ^b   Hosseini, Mostafa ^a   Abdollahi, Mohammad ^a   Ghadirian, Parviz ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Iran; Opium; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome; Traffic accidents

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPIATE ADDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349261142     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580902995380     Document Type: Article

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