The cost of sustaining playground related extremity fractures in Singapore

Injury

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 352-355

  Leung, Kenneth Wong Pak ^a   Mahadev, Arjandas ^a  

^a KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Costs; Extremity fractures; Paediatric fractures; Playground injuries; Psychosocial

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARM FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CAST APPLICATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSULTATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELBOW FRACTURE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOREARM FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; HAND FRACTURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; HUMERUS SUPRACONDYLAR FRACTURE; LIMB FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORTHOPEDICS; PLAY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGAPORE; SPINE FRACTURE; WRIST FRACTURE;

ABSENTEEISM; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARM INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SINGAPORE;

EID: 79952443404     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2010.05.024     Document Type: Article

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