TY - JOUR PY - 2017// TI - Long-term follow-up of a community-based smoke alarm installation programme (letter) JO - Injury prevention A1 - McCoy, Mary A. A1 - Stephens-Stidham, Shelli A1 - Caton, Emily A1 - Padgett, Ted O. A1 - Barnard, Jeffrey J. A1 - Istre, Gregory R. SP - 287 EP - 288 VL - 23 IS - 4 N2 -
We previously reported the results of the 10-year follow-up of house fire-related deaths and injuries (HF-D/I) among residents of the 8134 programme houses versus the 24 346 non-programme houses in 36 census tracts in Dallas, Texas, USA, that had smoke alarms installed between April 2001 and April 2011 through a community-based smoke alarm installation programme called Operation Installation (OI).1 At that time, we had an average follow-up of 5.2 years. Using ongoing surveillance for HF-D/I and the same methods of study that were used in the initial report,1 we have re-assessed the effectiveness of …
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LA - en SN - 1353-8047 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2016-042293 ID - ref1 ER -