Burns represent a significant proportion of the total serious trauma workload in England and Wales

Burns

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 330-339

  Kalson, Nicholas S ^a   Jenks, Tom ^b   Woodford, Maralyn ^b   Lecky, Fiona E ^b   Dunn, Ken W ^a  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Injury rate; Prevalence; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BURN; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POPULATION RESEARCH; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKLOAD;

BURNS; ENGLAND; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; TRAUMA CENTERS; WALES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84858076401     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: 18791409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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