The Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Fatal Motor Vehicle Injury: High Risk at Low Alcohol Levels

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1827-1834

  Taylor, Benjamin ^a,b   Rehm, Jürgen ^b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Meta analysis; Mortality; Motor vehicle injury; Risk

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; DEATH; FATALITY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84866988582     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2012.01785.x     Document Type: Article

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