The association of weight percentile and motor vehicle crash injury among 3 to 8 year old children

Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine - 54th Annual Scientific Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 193-199

  Zonfrillo, Mark R ^a   Nelson, Kyle A ^a   Durbin, Dennis R ^a   Kalian, Michael J ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GLOBAL EPIDEMIC; INJURY RISK; INSURANCE CLAIMS; LOWER EXTREMITY INJURIES; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES; RELATED INJURIES; SPECIFIC WEIGHTS; STUDY SAMPLES; TELEPHONE SURVEY;

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); INSURANCE; NUTRITION; PEDIATRICS;

VEHICLES;

CHILD; CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MOTOR VEHICLE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CHILD; CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MOTOR VEHICLES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78650855490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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