Booster seat laws and child fatalities: A case-control study

Injury Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 348-350

  Farmer, P ^a   Howard, A ^b   Rothman, L ^b   Macpherson, A ^a,c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CHILD; CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHILD; CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 70350131279     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2008.021204     Document Type: Article

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