Wisconsin firearm deer hunting season: Injuries at a level I trauma center, 1999-2004

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-24

  Halanski, Matthew A ^a   Corden, Timothy E ^b,c  

^a HELEN DEVOS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE REGISTRY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALLING; FATALITY; FEMALE; FIREARM; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CHILD; DEER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; WISCONSIN; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 40849140885     PISSN: 10981861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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