Rural high north: A high rate of fatal injury and prehospital death

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1615-1620

  Bakke, Håkon Kvåle ^a   Wisborg, Torben ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b Hammerfest Hospital   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MORTALITY; NORWAY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NORWAY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 80051551013     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-011-1102-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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