Epidemiology of foot injury in a high-income developing country

Injury

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-140

  Tadros, Ayman M A ^a   Eid, Hani O ^b   Abu Zidan, Fikri M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Foot; Fractures; Injury severity; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FALLING; FEMALE; FOOT FRACTURE; FOOT INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOFT TISSUE INJURY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOOT INJURIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INCOME; INDUSTRY; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTORCYCLES; REGISTRIES; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74449094010     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.05.031     Document Type: Article

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