- Author
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Smith, L. E.
- Title
- National Estimates of U.S. Residential Fire-Related Injuries: An Improved Procedure.
- Coporate
- Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC
- Journal
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Journal of Safety Research,
Vol. 25,
No. 4,
221-227,
Winter 1994
- Keywords
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injuries
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fire statistics
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residential buildings
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NFIRS
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fire departments
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aggregates
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hospitals
- Identifiers
- National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS); National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS); estimated fire related injuries, fatal and nonfatal; comparison of aggregate estimates; comparison of age distribution; age distribution of fire related injuries, in percent; age distribution of nonfatal fire related injuries seen by both the fire service and the hospital, in percent; comparison of injury diagnosis; diagnosis distribution of fire related injuries, in percent; diagnosis distribution of nonfatal fire related injuries seen by both the fire service and the hospital, in percent; estimated fire related injuries, fatal and nonfatal, combining NEISS and NFIRS/NFPA