Differences in police, ambulance, and emergency department reporting of traffic injuries on Karachi-Hala road, Pakistan

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bhatti, Junaid A ^a,b,c   Razzak, Junaid A ^b   Lagarde, Emmanuel ^a   Salmi, Louis Rachid ^a,d,e  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Highway; injury severity; surveillance; traffic accident

Indexed keywords

PANDANUS TECTORIUS;

EID: 79953115657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-75     Document Type: Article

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