Use of child safety seats during transportation of newborns
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Reviews of evidence regarding interventions to increase use of child safety seats.
BACKGROUND In 1998, nearly 600 child occupants of motor vehicles aged younger than 4 years died in motor vehicle crashes. Yet approximately 29% of children aged 4 years and younger do not ride in appropriate child safety seat restraints, which, when correctly installed and used, reduce the need for hospitalization in this age group by 69% and the risk of death by approximately 70% for infants a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Korean Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1738-1061,2092-7258
DOI: 10.3345/kjp.2018.61.8.253