Comparison of survival outcomes and anatomically specific severe injuries following traffic accidents among occupants of standard and K-car vehicles: A retrospective cohort study at a teaching hospital in Japan

• Yuko Ono ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: windmill@people.kobe-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, Department of Anesthesiology, Ohta General Hospital Foundation, Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, Koriyama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5953-3042

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• Tasuku Uzawa,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

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• Jun Sugiyama,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

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• Nozomi Tomita,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Ohta General Hospital Foundation, Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, Koriyama, Japan

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• Takeyasu Kakamu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

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• Tokiya Ishida,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

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• Joji Kotani,

  Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

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• Kazuaki Shinohara

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Ohta General Hospital Foundation, Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, Koriyama, Japan

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