A risk profile of emergency room adult trauma victims: Intentional versus unintentional trauma injuries

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 69-86

  Elliott Brown, Karin A ^a   Brown, James R ^a,b,c   Kennedy, Frank ^b   Fleming, Arthur W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDESTRIAN; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL WORK; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LIFE STYLE; LOS ANGELES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0345367471     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v27n02_04     Document Type: Article

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