Mountain billing injuries requiring trauma center admission: A 10-year regional trauma system experience

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 312-318

  Kim, Peter T W ^a   Jangra, Dalbhir ^a   Ritchie, Alec H ^b   Lower, Mary Ellen ^d   Kasic, Sharon ^e   Brown, D Ross ^a   Baldwin, Greg A ^c   Simons, Richard K ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LIONS GATE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d BC Injury Prevention Centre

^e BC Trauma Registry ^*

^f Trauma Services   (Canada)

Author keywords

Injury prevention; Mountain biking; Trauma center

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; CANADA; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUNTAIN BIKING; NECK INJURY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REGISTER; SPINE INJURY; SPORT INJURY; THORAX INJURY; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BICYCLING; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33646092808     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000202714.31780.5f     Document Type: Article

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