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Traffic Injury Prevention Volume 19, 2018 - Issue sup2: Peer-Reviewed Journal for the 62nd Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM), October 2018
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Short Communications from the AAAM 62nd Annual Scientific Conference

Decomposition analysis of the effects of vehicle safety technologies on the motor vehicle collision–related mortality rate from 1994 to 2015

Russell GriffinDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; ;Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AlabamaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Gerald McGwinDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama;
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Jeffrey KerbyDivision of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Pages S169-S172 | Published online: 06 Mar 2019

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