Trauma on rural roads: The role of a peripheral hospital

Injury

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 337-340

  Street, J T ^a   Winter, D ^a   Buckley, S ^b   Nicholson, P ^a   Twomey, A ^b  

^a University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

^b Mallow General Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; IRELAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WORKLOAD;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; IRELAND; MIDDLE AGED; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH; SEASONS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0032986002     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(99)00093-5     Document Type: Article

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