Reduction in fatalities, ambulance calls, and hospital admissions for road trauma after implementation of new traffic laws

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 10, 2014, Pages e89-e97

  Brubacher, Jeffrey R ^a   Chan, Herbert ^a   Brasher, Penelope ^c   Erdelyi, Shannon ^c   Desapriya, Edi ^a   Asbridge, Mark ^d   Purssell, Roy ^a,b   Macdonald, Scott ^e   Schuurman, Nadine ^f   Pike, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CAR DRIVING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BRITISH COLUMBIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84907219828     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302068     Document Type: Article

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