Trimodal temporal distribution of fatal trauma-Fact or fiction?

Injury

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 960-961

  Krüger, Andreas J ^a   Søreide, Kjetil ^a  

^a STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATALITY; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; INJURY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LETTER; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 47349094958     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2008.01.007     Document Type: Letter

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