Evaluation of Race and Ethnicity on Alcohol and Drug Testing of Adolescents Admitted with Trauma

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1253-1259

  Marcin, James P ^a,b   Pretzlaff, Robert K ^a,b,c   Whittaker, Holly L ^b   Kon, Alexander A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Alcohol testing; Drug testing; Ethnicity; Race; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DRUG ABUSE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NATIONAL TRAUMA DATA BANK; NEGRO; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0242413954     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/S1069-6563(03)00496-2     Document Type: Article

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