The Role of Alcohol in Road Traffic Accidents With Fatal Outcome: 10-Year Period in Croatia Split-Dalmatia County

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 222-227

  Sutlovic, Davorka ^a,b   Scepanovic, Antonija ^b   Bosnjak, Marinko ^b   Versic Bratincevic, Maja ^b   Definis Gojanovic, Marija ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

alcohol; BAC; DUI; toxicology; traffic

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAR DRIVING; CHILD; CROATIA; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROATIA; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891294285     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2013.804915     Document Type: Article

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