Appendix Table 3. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria for Motor Vehicle Occupant Injury Prevention

Inclusion criteria

• Intervention: Study evaluates a behavioral counseling intervention targeting restraint use (including safety seats, booster seats, seat belts, correct use, and seat location) or alcohol-impaired driving or riding.
• Age groups: All age groups.
• Outcomes: Use and correct use of age- and weight-appropriate restraints; decreased alcohol-impaired driving or riding with alcohol-impaired drivers; decreased morbidity or mortality of occupants in motor vehicle accidents; harms from counseling.

Exclusion criteria

• Nonhumans.
• Non-English-language abstract.
• Study does not evaluate a behavioral counseling intervention targeting restraint use or alcohol-impaired driving or riding with alcohol-impaired drivers.
• Setting: Intervention not done in primary care, not feasible for primary care, or not widely available for primary care referral, as described in Appendix Table 4.
• Population: Selective population not normally seen in primary care (e.g., patients recruited from emergency department or other specialty setting who are injured or intoxicated and do not represent a general patient population).
• Country: Study not conducted in a country with United Nations human development index similar to U.S. population.
• Outcomes: Does not report designated outcomes (above).
• Study quality: Does not meet U.S. Preventive Services Task Force criteria for quality.
• Study designs: Editorials, letters, non-systematic reviews, non-comparative studies, case-control studies.

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