Motorcycle Helmets Save Lives, But Not Limbs: A National Trauma Data Bank Analysis of Functional Outcomes After Motorcycle Crash1

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-5

  Crompton, Joseph G ^a   Oyetunji, Tolulope ^b   Stevens, Kent A ^a   Efron, David T ^a   Haut, Elliott R ^a   Haider, Adil H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

feeding deficit; functional outcomes; locomotion deficit; motorcycle helmet; National Trauma Data Bank; speech deficit; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HELMET; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH DISORDER; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTORCYCLES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH DISORDERS;

EID: 71649110175     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.06.034     Document Type: Article

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