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| D R DurbinSummaryAffiliation: University of Pennsylvania Country: USA Publications
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Trends in booster seat use among young children in crashesD R Durbin
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Pediatrics 108:E109. 2001..In particular, several states are currently considering upgrades to their child restraint laws to include the use of booster seats for children over 4 years of age...
Risk of injury to restrained children from passenger air bagsDennis R Durbin
Department of Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 4:58-63. 2003..3; 95% CI, 2.1-13.4). Exposure to PABs increased the risk of both minor injuries, including facial and chest abrasions, and more serious injuries, particularly upper extremity fractures...
Seat belt syndrome in children: a case report and review of the literatureD R Durbin
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 17:474-7. 2001..Emergency physicians must consider these seat belt-related injuries in the initial evaluation of any child involved in a motor vehicle crash who was restrained with the vehicle seat belt...
Trends in incidence of pediatric injury hospitalizations in PennsylvaniaD R Durbin
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA
Am J Public Health 90:1782-4. 2000..This study analyzed short-term trends in pediatric injury hospitalizations...
Partners for child passenger safety: a unique child-specific crash surveillance systemD R Durbin
The Department of Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Accid Anal Prev 33:407-12. 2001..C. Partners for Child Passenger Safety is similar in its design and overall objectives to National Automotive Sampling System (NASS), the only other population-based crash surveillance system currently operating in the US...
Validation of the ICD/AIS MAP for pediatric useD R Durbin
Department of Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Inj Prev 7:96-9. 2001..To determine the performance of the ICD/AIS MAP (EJ MacKenzie et al) as a method of classifying injury severity for children...
Trip characteristics of vehicle crashes involving child passengersI G Chen
The Department of Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Inj Prev 11:219-24. 2005..To describe the trip characteristics of vehicle crashes involving children, and to examine the effect of situational factors on front row seating or inappropriate restraint for young children...
Non-fatal and fatal crash injury risk for children in minivans compared with children in sport utility vehiclesM J Kallan
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Inj Prev 15:8-12. 2009..To compare the fatal and non-fatal crash injury risk for children in minivans compared with midsize and large sport utility vehicles (SUVs)...
Factors influencing pediatric injury in side impact collisionsK B Arbogast
3535 TraumaLink 10th floor, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th and Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Trauma 51:469-77. 2001..Side impact collisions pose a great risk to children in crashes, but information about the injury mechanisms is limited...
Teen drivers and the risk of injury to child passengers in motor vehicle crashesI G Chen
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA
Inj Prev 11:12-7. 2005..The second aim was to explore whether there was an excess injury risk to child passengers in teen crashes compared to those in adult crashes by examining the contributing factors...
Rear seating and risk of injury to child occupants by vehicle typeF K Winston
Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 45:51-60. 2001..8% for front-seated occupants. Further research is needed to identify the child and vehicle characteristics which might explain this increased injury risk...
The effect of seating position on risk of injury for children in side impact collisionsD R Durbin
Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med 45:61-72. 2001..These results highlight the importance of evaluating the safety performance of both vehicles and restraint systems for children in side impact crashes...
Development and validation of the injury severity assessment survey/parent report: a new injury severity assessment surveyD R Durbin
Department of Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 153:404-8. 1999..To develop and pilot test a telephone-based survey instrument that enables parents to identify and characterize the body region and severity of childhood injuries using the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) scoring system...
Assessing child restraint misuse by parental surveyK B Arbogast
Department of Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia 19104, USA
Inj Prev 6:145-7. 2000..To determine the extent to which child restraint system (CRS) misuse can be evaluated by parental survey...
The danger of premature graduation to seat belts for young childrenF K Winston
Department of Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Pediatrics 105:1179-83. 2000..To determine the risk of significant injury associated with premature graduation of young (2- to 5-year-old) children to seat belts from child restraint systems (CRS)...
Misuse of booster seatsS D Morris
The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Inj Prev 6:281-4. 2000..To describe several aspects of booster seat use and misuse in a sample of children attending child safety seat clinics...
Exposure to traffic among urban children injured as pedestriansJ C Posner
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Inj Prev 8:231-5. 2002..In particular, the traffic exposure of children who were struck while playing was compared with that of those struck while crossing streets...
The learning classifier system: an evolutionary computation approach to knowledge discovery in epidemiologic surveillanceJ H Holmes
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 106 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Artif Intell Med 19:53-74. 2000..Classification performance of C4.5 was superior to that of EpiCS (P<0.05). However, risk estimates derived by EpiCS were significantly more accurate than those derived by logistic regression (P<0.05)...
Child bicyclist injuries: are we obtaining enough information in the emergency department chart?E K Moll
Department of Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 19104, USA
Inj Prev 8:165-9. 2002..The purpose of this study was to assess the range of information relevant to bicyclist injury research that is available on routinely completed emergency department medical records...
