House fire injury prevention update. Part I. A review of risk factors for fatal and non-fatal house fire injury
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House fire injury prevention update. Part I. A review of risk factors for fatal and non-fatal house fire injury.
OBJECTIVE To summarize house fire injury risk factor data, using relative risk estimation as a uniform method of comparison. METHODS Residential fire risk factor studies were identified as follows: MEDLINE (1983 to March 1997) was searched using the keywords fire*/burn*, with etiology/cause*, prevention, epidemiology, and smoke detector* or alarm*. ERIC (1966 to March 1997) and PSYCLIT (1974 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Injury Prevention
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1353-8047
DOI: 10.1136/ip.5.2.145