Preventable Trauma Deaths: A Review of Trauma Care Systems Development

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 254, Issue 8, 1985, Pages 1059-1063

  Cales, Richard H ^a   Trunkey, Donald D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THERAPY; UNITED STATES;

CANADA; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FIRST AID; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 20TH CENT.; HUMAN; REGIONAL HEALTH PLANNING; RURAL HEALTH; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0022262561     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1985.03360080071032     Document Type: Article

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