Children dying in car trunks: how adequate are child death databases?
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Children dying in car trunks: how adequate are child death databases?
OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of and circumstances surrounding child deaths resulting from inadvertent entrapment in motor vehicle trunks in the US by querying child fatality review databases. METHOD A telephone survey was conducted with the persons or offices identified as having primary responsibility for child fatality review programs in each state. The survey requested information ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Injury Prevention
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1353-8047
DOI: 10.1136/ip.6.3.171