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ArticleTraffic injury prevention2019

Evaluation of the effectiveness of traffic calming measures on vehicle speeds and pedestrian injury severity in Ghana.

James Damsere-Derry, Beth E Ebel, Charles N Mock, Francis Afukaar, Peter Donkor, Thomas Ojo Kalowole

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Article in Traffic injury prevention, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Geographic determinants of goods vehicle speeding in British cities.Npj sustainable mobility and transport · 2026
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  11. Evaluation of a Road Safety Awareness Campaign Deployed along the Roadside in Saguenay (Québec, Canada).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  12. Effect of speed humps on injury consequences on trunk roads traversing towns in Ghana: A quasi-experimental study.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2023
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  16. Adult pedestrian and cyclist injuries in Lilongwe, Malawi: a cross-sectional study.Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

James Damsere-Derrya CSIR-Building & Road Research Institute , Kumasi , Ghana.
Beth E Ebelb Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington.
Charles N Mockb Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington.
Francis Afukaara CSIR-Building & Road Research Institute , Kumasi , Ghana.
Peter Donkorc Department of Surgery , Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology , Kumasi , Ghana.
Thomas Ojo Kalowoled Department of Geography and Urban Studies , University of Cape Coast , Cape Coast , Ghana.ORCID 0000-0001-9737-9827

Funding

Understanding the Effect of Climate Change on Road Safety in GhanaD43TW007267 · FIC · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Peter Donkor, CHARLES N. MOCK · 2005 to 2026
$5.0M
Harborview Injury Prevention Research CenterR49CE000197 · CE · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI EBEL, BETH E · 2004 to 2009
$2.7M
FIC NIH HHS D43 TW007267NCIPC CDC HHS R49 CE000197
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PedestriansAccelerationAccidents, TrafficAdolescentAdultCase-Control StudiesChildChild, PreschoolFemaleGhanaHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleMiddle AgedTrauma Severity Indicesbypassdemerit pointsenforcementpedestrian injuriesspeedingTraffic calming measures

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PMID31033340
PMCPMC7141770

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