Complications of trauma care: Risk analysis of pneumonia in 10,001 adult trauma patients

American Surgeon

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 207-211

  Bellemare, Jean Francois ^a,b   Tepas III, J J ^a   Imami, Emran R ^a   Hartland, Lillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORAX INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0029996514     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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