Injury burden during an insurgency: The untold trauma of infrastructure breakdown in Baghdad, Iraq

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1379-1385

  Donaldson, Ross I ^a,b   Hung, Yuen Wai ^b   Shanovich, Patrick ^a,b   Hasoon, Tariq ^b   Evans, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Conflict; Injury; Iraq; War

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EXPLOSION; FALLING; FATALITY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INJURY; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIOLENCE; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; IRAQ; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78650823396     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318203190f     Document Type: Article

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