Improved outcomes after polytrauma: Do we know the reasons?

Injury

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 991-992

  Civil, I D S ^a  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; BRAIN INJURY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TRAUMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 34547971723     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2007.07.001     Document Type: Editorial

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