Preventability of pre-hospital trauma deaths in southern New Zealand

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 1316, 2010, Pages 11-19

  Falconer, James A ^a  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NECK INJURY; NEW ZEALAND; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROBABILITY; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77953519121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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