Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 2 , Pages 152-157 , August 2005

Road Traffic Injuries in Lazio, Italy: A Descriptive Analysis From an Emergency Department–Based Surveillance System

Received 17 November 2004 ,Revised 13 January 2005 ,Accepted 26 January 2005.

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 Supervising editor: Debra E. Houry, MD, MPHAuthor contributions: PGR, SF, PB, and GG conceived and designed the study. PGR, SF, FC, and LC planned the strategy of analysis. FC and LC performed the statistical and epidemiologic analysis. PGR and SF drafted the paper. PGR takes responsibility for the data. PGR takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: The present work is partially funded by the European Union: Grant Agreement SPC 2002300 between the European Commission, DG Sanco, and World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, subcontract for the “Road accident indicators” between World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, and Agency for Public Health, Lazio Region Obligation EU/03048301.Presented at the 7th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, June 2004, Vienna, Austria.Reprints not available from the authors.

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doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.01.033

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 2 , Pages 152-157 , August 2005

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