Trauma at a Nigerian teaching hospital: Pattern and documentation of presentation

African Health Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 104-107

  Thanni, L O A ^a   Kehinde, O A ^a  

^a OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Injury; Injury severity score; Mortality; Pidemiology; Road traffic accident; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; BURN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; LACERATION; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NECK INJURY; NIGERIA; REGISTER; SCORING SYSTEM; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LACERATIONS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NIGERIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 34347390435     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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