The malignant epidemic - Changing patterns of trauma

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 798-802

  Bowley, Douglas M G ^a   Khavandi, Ali ^a   Boffard, Kenneth D ^a   Macnab, Cara ^a   Eales, Jocelyn ^a   Vellema, Jeanine ^a   Schoön, Heloïse ^a   Goosen, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCUMENTATION; EPIDEMIC; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MIGRATION; POLITICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; URBANIZATION; VIOLENCE; WOUND;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COST OF ILLNESS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POLITICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0036772437     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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