Racial disparities in health care-emergency department management of minor head injury

International Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 161-166

  Brown, Richard ^a   Furyk, Jeremy ^a  

^a TOWNSVILLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Head injury; Racial disparity

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 77952741745     PISSN: 18651372     EISSN: 18651380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12245-009-0124-9     Document Type: Article

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