title: Female drivers increasingly involved in impaired driving crashes: actions to ameliorate the risk.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
authors.forename: Federico E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Vaca
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Romano
authors.forename: James C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Fell
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000401:mortality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012306:Risk; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D017678:Sex Distribution