Injury thresholds after motor vehicle crash-Important factors for patient triage and vehicle design

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 672-675

  Talmor, Daniel ^a   Legedza, Anna T R ^a   Nirula, Ram ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Gender; Injury prediction; Motor vehicle crashes; Triage; Velocity

Indexed keywords

CUT-OFF; DELTA VELOCITY; ELDERLY DRIVERS; GENDER; INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS; INJURY PREDICTION; INJURY RISK; INJURY THRESHOLD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; LOW RATES; MOTOR VEHICLE; MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES; OLDER ADULTS; SAMPLING SYSTEMS; VEHICLE DESIGN; VEHICLE SPEED;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; MOTORS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

VEHICLES;

DRUG VEHICLE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VEHICLES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRIAGE; VEHICLES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 76149120817     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2009.10.015     Document Type: Article

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