Hospitalisation for head injury due to assault among indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, July 1999 - June 2005

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 576-579

  Jamieson, Lisa M ^a   Harrison, James E ^b   Berry, Jesia G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; AGED; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 47049094861     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01793.x     Document Type: Article

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