Bicycle Helmet Use Trends and RelatedRisk of Mortality and Traumatic Brain Injuryamong Pediatric Trauma
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Copyright: © 2016 Phillips JL, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. *Corresponding author: Mackenzie Campbell-Furtick, JPS Health Network, 1500 S. Main St., Fort Worth, TX 76104, United States, Tel: 1-817-702-6772; Fax: 1-817-702-6768; E-mail: [email protected]
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