Number of medications and road traffic crashes in senior swedish drivers: A population-based matched case-control study

Injury Prevention

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 81-87

  Monárrez Espino, Joel ^a   Laflamme, Lucie ^a   Elling, Berty ^a   Möller, Jette ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

AGE; AGED; CAR DRIVING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITION; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LICENSING; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWEDEN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERY ELDERLY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LICENSURE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; PREVALENCE; REACTION TIME; SWEDEN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84896493634     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2013-040762     Document Type: Article

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