Reducing drowning deaths: The continued challenge of immersion fatalities in Australia

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 123-126

  Franklin, Richard C ^a   Scarr, Justin P ^a   Pearn, John H ^a,b  

^a Royal Life Saving Society Australia   (Australia)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CORONER; DEATH; DROWNING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LEISURE; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RIVER; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASHORE; SWIMMING POOL; WATER IMMERSION;

EID: 77952347910     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03448.x     Document Type: Article

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