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Nonuse of bicycle helmets and risk of fatal head injury: a proportional mortality, case–control study
Navindra Persaud, Emily Coleman, Dorothy Zwolakowski, Bert Lauwers and Dan Cass
CMAJ November 20, 2012 184 (17) E921-E923; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120988
Navindra Persaud
From the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario (Persaud, Coleman, Zwolakowski, Lauwers, Cass), Toronto, Ont.; Keenan Research Centre, (Persaud) Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital; the Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; the Department of Family and Community (Lauwers), Medicine of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; and the Division of Emergency Medicine (Cass), the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
MD MScEmily Coleman
From the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario (Persaud, Coleman, Zwolakowski, Lauwers, Cass), Toronto, Ont.; Keenan Research Centre, (Persaud) Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital; the Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; the Department of Family and Community (Lauwers), Medicine of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; and the Division of Emergency Medicine (Cass), the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
BADorothy Zwolakowski
From the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario (Persaud, Coleman, Zwolakowski, Lauwers, Cass), Toronto, Ont.; Keenan Research Centre, (Persaud) Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital; the Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; the Department of Family and Community (Lauwers), Medicine of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; and the Division of Emergency Medicine (Cass), the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
BABert Lauwers
From the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario (Persaud, Coleman, Zwolakowski, Lauwers, Cass), Toronto, Ont.; Keenan Research Centre, (Persaud) Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital; the Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; the Department of Family and Community (Lauwers), Medicine of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; and the Division of Emergency Medicine (Cass), the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
MDDan Cass
From the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario (Persaud, Coleman, Zwolakowski, Lauwers, Cass), Toronto, Ont.; Keenan Research Centre, (Persaud) Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital; the Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; the Department of Family and Community (Lauwers), Medicine of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; and the Division of Emergency Medicine (Cass), the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
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Nonuse of bicycle helmets and risk of fatal head injury: a proportional mortality, case–control study
Navindra Persaud, Emily Coleman, Dorothy Zwolakowski, Bert Lauwers, Dan Cass
CMAJ Nov 2012, 184 (17) E921-E923; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.120988
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