Targeting burn prevention in the paediatric population: A prospective study of children's burns in the Lausanne area

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 139, Issue 37-38, 2009, Pages 535-539

  Natterer, Julia ^a,b   Roessingh, Anthony De Buys ^a   Reinberg, Olivier ^a   Hohlfeld, Judith ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Service de Pédiatrie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Burn; Child; Environment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BURN; CHILD; FEMALE; HOME ACCIDENT; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RISK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCALD; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 70349279981     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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