Factors associated with clinically significant head injury in children involved in motor vehicle crashes

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 600-605

  Nance, Michael L ^a   Kallan, Michael J ^b   Arbogast, Kristy B ^a   Park, Myung S ^c   Durbin, Dennis R ^a   Winston, Flaura K ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Head injury; Motor vehicle; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAR; CHILD; HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SKULL FRACTURE; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AUTOMOBILES; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SKULL FRACTURES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649754111     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2010.513072     Document Type: Article

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