Injury prevention programs against distracted driving: Are they effective?

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 460-464

  Joseph, Bellal ^a   Zangbar, Bardiya ^a   Bains, Sandeep ^a   Kulvatunyou, Narong ^a   Khalil, Mazhar ^a   Mahmoud, Dalal ^a   Friese, Randall S ^a   O'Keeffe, Terence ^a   Pandit, Viraj ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

distracted driving; educational campaign; texting and driving; talking and driving

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AWARENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; E-MAIL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LAW; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PUBLICATION; SCRUB; TEXT MESSAGING; ADULT; CAR DRIVING; DISTRACTED DRIVING; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AWARENESS; COMMUNICATION; DISTRACTED DRIVING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TEXT MESSAGING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84974822294     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2015.1116042     Document Type: Article

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