Graduated driver licensing and motor vehicle crashes involving teenage drivers: An exploratory age-stratified meta-analysis

Injury Prevention

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-57

  Zhu, Motao ^a   Cummings, Peter ^b   Chu, Haitao ^c   Coben, Jeffrey H ^a   Li, Guohua ^d  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CANADA; CAR DRIVING; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; META ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CANADA; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872980720     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040474     Document Type: Review

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