Of "crashes" and "accidents," a comment on Stewart and Lord.
A. E. Stewart and J. H. Lord (2002) call for abandoning the term motor vehicle accident and substituting motor vehicle crash on definitional and patient care grounds. We disagree on definitional grounds and because of the absence of empirical data from accident survivors to support their contentions.
Blanchard
Edward B
EB
Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders, State University of New York, Albany, New York 12203, USA. jar@cnsunix.albany.edu
Hickling
Edward J
EJ
Kuhn
Eric
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D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D006801:Humans; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000209:etiology; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology; D009626:Terminology as Topic