Area-wide traffic calming for preventing traffic related injuries

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Bunn, Frances ^a   Collier, Timothy ^b   Frost, Chris ^b   Ker, Katharine ^b   Steinbach, Rebecca ^b   Roberts, Ian ^b   Wentz, Reinhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

*prevention control ; Accident prevention; Accidents, traffic mortality; Automobile driving; Controlled clinical trials as topic; Humans; Safety; Urban health; Wounds and injuries epidemiology; prevention control

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DENMARK; GERMANY; HUMAN; INJURY; JAPAN; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; REVIEW; SPAIN; TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 73449118499     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003110     Document Type: Review

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