@article{ref1,
title="National estimates of U.S. residential fire-related injuries: an improved procedure",
journal="Journal of safety research",
year="1994",
author="Smith, L. E.",
volume="25",
number="4",
pages="221-227",
abstract="This study compared fire-related injuries from two ongoing data systems to determine how to combine them to provide improved estimates of U.S. residential fire-related injuries. National estimates and characteristics of patients treated in hospital emergency rooms for fire-related injuries were compared with injuries in a database of fires attended by the fire service. National estimates, age, and diagnosis distributions of injuries seen by both a hospital and the fire service were very similar in the two systems, indicating that the systems overlapped for this segment of injuries. Each system also contained a segment of fire-related injuries that was not included in the other. Combining the overlapping segment of injuries with segments that did not overlap resulted in an estimate of 45,000-47,000 U.S. fire-related injuries, the most com-prehensive estimate of U.S. residential fire-related injuries available to date.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0022-4375",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}