Road trauma in teenage male youth with childhood disruptive behavior disorders: A population based analysis

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Redelmeier, Donald A ^a,b,c,d   Chan, William K ^a,c   Lu, Hong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CANADA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONDUCT DISORDER; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 78649930509     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000369     Document Type: Article

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