Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 248-253 , April 2010

Injuries in special transport services—Situations and risk levels involving wheelchair users

  • Anders Wretstrand

      Affiliations

    • Department of Technology and Society, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 46 2229125; fax: +46 46 123272.
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  • Per-Olof Bylund

      Affiliations

    • Emergency and Disaster Medical Center, University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden
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  • Jan Petzäll

      Affiliations

    • Swedish Transport Agency, Norrköping,, Sweden
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  • Torbjörn Falkmer

      Affiliations

    • Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia; Jönköping University, Sweden; Linköping University, Sweden

Received 15 July 2008 ,Revised 29 June 2009 ,Accepted 31 July 2009.

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PII: S1350-4533(09)00172-6

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.07.022

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 248-253 , April 2010