Understanding combat casualty care statistics

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 397-401

  Holcomb, John B ^a   Stansbury, Lynn G ^a   Champion, Howard R ^b   Wade, Charles ^a   Bellamy, Ronald F ^b  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Casualty; Combat; Statistics

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; BATTLE INJURY; FATALITY; HEALTH STATISTICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IRAQ; MEDICAL RECORD; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; HEALTH SURVEY; HELMET; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; IRAN; MILITARY MEDICINE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TERRORISM; TRAUMATOLOGY; WAR;

AFGHANISTAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; IRAN; MILITARY MEDICINE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TERRORISM; TRAUMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VIETNAM CONFLICT; WAR; WORLD WAR II; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33646078951     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000203581.75241.f1     Document Type: Review

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