Preventing unintentional injury in children and adolescents the importance of local injury data collection

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  O'Carroll, C ^a   Egleston, C ^a   Nicholson, Alf J ^a,b  

^a OUR LADY OF LOURDES HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b CHILDREN S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL;

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BURN; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; DROWNING; ELECTRIC INJURY; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FEMALE; FIRE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRELAND; METHODOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67651101068     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: 03323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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