Missed injuries in patients with multiple trauma: Analysis of a trauma registry;Lesiones inadvertidas en el politraumatizado: Análisis de un registro de trauma

Cirugia Espanola

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 303-307

  Jiménez Gómez, Luis Miguel ^a   Amunategui, Iñaki ^a   Sánchez, Juan María ^a   Colón, Arturo ^a   Pérez, María Dolores ^a   Sanz, Mercedes ^a   Turégano, Fernando ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Missed injury; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PENETRATING TRAUMA; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN; STATISTICS;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 33645460009     PISSN: 0009739X     EISSN: 1578147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-739X(05)70939-8     Document Type: Article

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