Severe bicycling injury risk factors in children and adolescents: A case-control study

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 78, Issue , 2015, Pages 165-172

  Hagel, Brent E ^a   Romanow, Nicole T R ^b   Enns, Nancy ^c   Williamson, Jacqueline ^c   Rowe, Brian H ^d  

^a ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bicycling; Child and youth; Hospitalization; Severe; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; EMERGENCY ROOMS; HOSPITALS; RISK PERCEPTION;

BICYCLING; CHILD AND YOUTH; HOSPITALIZATION; SEVERE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

HEALTH RISKS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; CANADA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYCLING; FEMALE; HELMET; HUMAN; INJURIES; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ALBERTA; BICYCLING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLIMATE; FEMALE; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84924933745     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2015.03.002     Document Type: Article

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