The epidemiological analyses of trauma patients in Chongqing teaching hospitals following the Wenchuan earthquake

Injury

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 488-492

  Yang, Ce ^a   Wang, Hai yan ^a   Zhong, He jiang ^a   Zhou, Lin ^a   Jiang, Dian ming ^b   Du, Ding yuan ^c   Hu, Ping ^c   Jiang, Jian xin ^a  

^a Burns and Combined Injury   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHONGQING EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Epidemiology; Fractures; Infection; Trauma and injury

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CRUSH SYNDROME; DEMOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKE; FACE FRACTURE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORAX INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CRUSH SYNDROME; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349186310     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.01.102     Document Type: Article

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