Testing for substance use in trauma patients: Are we doing enough?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 633-638

  London, Jason A ^a   Battistella, Felix D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG USE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 34447507945     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.7.633     Document Type: Review

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