Bicycle helmets are highly protective against traumatic brain injury within a dense urban setting

Injury

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2483-2490

  Sethi, Monica ^a   Heidenberg, Jessica ^a   Wall, Stephen P ^a   Ayoung Chee, Patricia ^a   Slaughter, Dekeya ^a   Levine, Deborah A ^a   Jacko, Sally ^a   Wilson, Chad ^a   Marshall, Gary ^a   Leon Pachter, H ^a   Frangos, Spiros G ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicycle; Bike share; Head injury; Helmet; Trauma; Traumatic brain injury; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; CYCLING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HELMET; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INJURIES; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN HEALTH; UTILIZATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BICYCLING; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRAUMA CENTERS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84951573526     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2015.07.030     Document Type: Article

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