Height and surfacing as risk factors for injury in falls from playground equipment: a case-control study.

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Published in Inj Prev on June 01, 1996

Authors

D J Chalmers1, S W Marshall, J D Langley, M J Evans, C R Brunton, A M Kelly, A F Pickering

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand.

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