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Trends in bicycle-related injuries, hospital admissions, and deaths in the USA 1997–2013

Kirkpatrick B. FergusDepartment of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California;
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Thomas SanfordDepartment of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California;
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Jason VargoIndependent researcher, San Francisco, California;
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Benjamin N. BreyerDepartment of Urology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; ;Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CaliforniaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 550-555 | Received 14 Oct 2018, Accepted 14 May 2019, Published online: 14 Jun 2019

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