Female drivers increasingly involved in impaired driving crashes: actions to ameliorate the risk.

Vaca, Federico E; Romano, Eduardo; Fell, James C · Acad Emerg Med · 2014

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Abstract

Emergency physicians are confronted daily with the care of traumatically injured patients. A considerable proportion of blunt trauma cases are due to motor vehicle crashes. While men have historically been overrepresented in crash-related injuries and deaths, unfavorable trends for women in alcohol-impaired driving crashes have emerged. This extended commentary with in-depth review presents an examination of the evolving role of sex and gender in alcohol-impaired driving and its outcomes.

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