Pain, priorities, and prehospital care

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 486-488

  Turturro, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FIRST AID; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PAIN; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036791728     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120290938238     Document Type: Editorial

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