Fatal motorcycle accidents in Fars Province, Iran: A community-based survey

Chinese Journal of Traumatology - English Edition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 222-227

  Heydari, Seyed Taghi ^a   Maharlouei, Najmeh ^a   Foroutan, Ali ^a   Sarikhani, Yaser ^a   Ghaffarpasand, Fariborz ^a   Hedjazi, Arya ^b   Zarenezhad, Mohammad ^b   Moafian, Ghasem ^a   Aghabeigi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Peymani, Payam ^a   Ahmadi, Seyed Mehdi ^a   Dehghankhalili, Maryam ^a   Joulaei, Hassan ^a   Lankarani, Kamran B ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Legal Medicine Research Centre   (Iran)

Author keywords

Accidents traffic; Iran; Motorcycles

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEAD INJURY; HELMET; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOTORCYCLE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; IRAN; MOTORCYCLES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84979859259     PISSN: 10081275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1008-1275.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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