Texting while driving: Does the new law work among healthcare providers

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 604-608

  Mathew, Anitha E ^a   Houry, Debra E ^a   Dente, Christopher ^a   Salomone, Jeffrey ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Distracted driving; Injury control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GENERAL SURGERY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LAW; ONLINE MONITORING; TEXT MESSAGING; ADULT; AGED; AWARENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GEORGIA; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIOLENCE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AWARENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84906306563     PISSN: 1936900X     EISSN: 19369018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2014.4.21273     Document Type: Article

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