Guns and knives in New Mexico: Patterns of penetrating trauma, 1978- 1993

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 263-267

  Crandall, Cameron ^a,b   Olson, Lenora ^a,b   Fullerton, Lynne ^a,b   Sklar, David ^a,b   Zumwalt, Ross ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Emergency Medicine ^*

Author keywords

firearms; injury; knives; morbidity; mortality; penetrating; prevention; trauma; wounds

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FIREARM; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; KNIFE CUT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAB WOUND; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0030932157     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03546.x     Document Type: Article

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