India and the management of road crashes: Towards a national trauma system

Indian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 226-232

  Fitzgerald, Mark ^a,c   Dewan, Yashbir ^b   O'Reilly, Gerard ^a   Mathew, Joseph ^a,b   McKenna, Carmel ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Funding; Preventable death; Trauma systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745538509     PISSN: 09722068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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