The Trauma Centre: What it should mean

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 530-531

  Jooma, Rashid ^a,c   Khan, Sabeena Jalal ^d   Razzak, Junaid Abdul ^b,d  

^a Road Traffic Injury Research and Prevention Centre ^*  (Pakistan)

^b Emergency Medicine   (Pakistan)

^c JINNAH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL CENTRE   (Pakistan)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY; RESUSCITATION; SPINE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIOLENCE;

HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; PAKISTAN; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 56049120578     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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