Commentary: Alcohol and motor vehicle-related crashes--driver attitudes need further intervention

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 406-408

  Lotfipour, Shahram ^a   Mortazavi, Rod ^a   Chakravarthy, Bharath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ATTITUDE TO CHANGE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUNKEN DRIVING; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATTITUDE; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953228073     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.02.005     Document Type: Note

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