Differences in the outcomes and treatments of extensively burned patients between a Chinese Hospital and a Japanese Hospital

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 206, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 283-290

  Saitoh, Daizoh ^b   Ben, Daofeng ^a   Huan, Jingning ^a   Hatanaka, Kousuke ^b   Okada, Yoshiaki ^b   Xia, Zhaofan ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alloskin; Burn; Outcome; Suicide rate; Tracheostomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BURN; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG BURN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; SKIN GRAFT; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SURVIVAL RATE; TRACHEOSTOMY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY SURFACE AREA; BURN UNITS; BURNS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23944510664     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.206.283     Document Type: Article

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