Whiplash syndrome reloaded: Digital echoes of whiplash syndrome in the European internet search engine context

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Noll Hussong, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accidents; Adult; Compensation; Compensation and redress; Female; Google Trends; Humans; Incidence; Insurance claim reporting; Legislation jurisprudence; Male; Medicolegal aspects; Neck pain; Prognosis; Search engine; Search engine analytics; Traffic; Whiplash injuries; Whiplash syndrome

Indexed keywords

EID: 85084361452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.7054     Document Type: Article

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