Rates of thoracic trauma and mortality due to accidents in Brazil

Annals of Thoracic Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-26

  Cury, Francisco ^a   Baitello, Andre ^a   Echeverria, Rodrigo ^a   Espada, Paulo ^a   Pereira De Godoy, Jose ^b,c  

^a Sao Jose do Rio Preto University School of Medicine   (Brazil)

^b National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq)   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Mortality; Prevalence; Thorax; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; BRAZIL; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; PEDESTRIAN; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; STAB WOUND; STUDENT T TEST; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VICTIM;

EID: 58149497026     PISSN: 18171737     EISSN: 19983557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.44782     Document Type: Article

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