Chinese Traffic Fatalities and Injuries in Police Reports, Hospital Records, and In-depth Records From One City

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 565-570

  Qiu, Jun ^a   Zhou, Jihong ^a   Zhang, Liang ^a   Yao, Yuan ^b   Yuan, Danfeng ^a   Shi, Jianguo ^b   Gao, Zhiming ^a   Zhou, Lin ^a   Wang, Zhengguo ^a   Evans, Leonard ^c  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The 117th Hospital of Chinese PLA   (China)

^c Science Serving Society   (United States)

Author keywords

China; data bias; road crash; traffic fatality; traffic injury

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; POLICE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CHINA; CITIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; POLICE; RECORDS AS TOPIC; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84926158726     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2014.973946     Document Type: Article

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