Citation

McCoy MA, Stephens-Stidham S, Caton E, Padgett TO, Barnard JJ, Istre GR. Inj. Prev. 2017; 23(4): 287-288.

Affiliation

Injury Prevention Center of Greater Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/injuryprev-2016-042293

PMID

28122821

Abstract

We previously reported the results of the 10-year follow-up of house fire-related deaths and injuries (HF-D/I) among residents of the 8134 programme houses versus the 24 346 non-programme houses in 36 census tracts in Dallas, Texas, USA, that had smoke alarms installed between April 2001 and April 2011 through a community-based smoke alarm installation programme called Operation Installation (OI).1 At that time, we had an average follow-up of 5.2 years. Using ongoing surveillance for HF-D/I and the same methods of study that were used in the initial report,1 we have re-assessed the effectiveness of …

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