Cross country variation of fractures in the childhood population. Is the origin biological or "accidental"?

Injury Prevention

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 77-

  Moustaki, M ^a   Lariou, M ^a   Petridou, E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; NOTE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIDENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; WALES;

EID: 18044401667     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.7.1.77     Document Type: Letter

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