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Effects of a mandatory safety belt law on hospital admissions
dc.contributor.authorWagenaar, Alexander C.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMargolis, Lewis H.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-04-10T13:42:47Z
dc.date.available2006-04-10T13:42:47Z
dc.date.issued1990-06en_US
dc.identifier.citationWagenaar, Alexander C., Margolis, Lewis H. (1990/06)."Effects of a mandatory safety belt law on hospital admissions." Accident Analysis &amp; Prevention 22(3): 253-261. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/28539>en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V5S-4698M7X-Y/2/c1c2942e2e962e0b49380cb81de3d971en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/28539
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=2393473&dopt=citationen_US
dc.description.abstractAlthough the effectiveness of automobile safety belts in reducing risk of serious injury in traffic crashes is well documented, safety belt use in many U.S. jurisdictions remains low. Michigan's mandatory safety belt law for front-seat occupants, implemented in July 1985, is one of 34 similar laws in the United States intended to increase belt use and reduce crash-related injuries. Using time-series intervention analyses of data from 14 hospitals throughout the state, we found a 19% reduction in the rate of admitted patients for all automobile occupant injuries and a 20% reduction in the rate of admitted patients with extremity injuries following implementation of the safety belt law. The utility of hospital data for the evaluation of interventions like the safety belt law reinforce the importance of consistently recording E-codes for all injury patients.en_US
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dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.titleEffects of a mandatory safety belt law on hospital admissionsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollowen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPublic Healthen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHealth Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michigan, School of Public Health, Department of Public Health Policy and Administration, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A.en_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherUniversity of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, Minneapolis, MN 55455, U.S.A.en_US
dc.identifier.pmid2393473en_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/28539/1/0000337.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0001-4575(90)90017-Fen_US
dc.identifier.sourceAccident Analysis &amp; Preventionen_US
dc.owningcollnameInterdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed


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