Biotab-a new method for analyzing and documenting injury causation in motor-vehicle crashes

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 256-265

  Schneider, Lawrence W ^a,b   Rupp, Jonathan D ^a,c   Scarboro, Mark ^d   Pintar, Frank ^e   Arbogast, Kristy B ^f   Rudd, Rodney W ^d   Sochor, Mark R ^g   Stitzel, Joel ^h   Sherwood, Chris ⁱ   Macwilliams, Joel B ^a   Halloway, Dale ^e   Ridella, Stephen ^d   Eppinger, Rolf ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Human Injury Research Division   (United States)

^e MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^h WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ^*  (United States)

^j NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

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Author keywords

CIREN; Crash investigation; Injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; METHODOLOGY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79958721236     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2011.560500     Document Type: Article

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