Motor vehicle collision-related emergency department visits by older adults in the United States

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 821-827

  Platts Mills, Timothy F ^a   Hunold, Katherine M ^b   Esserman, Denise A ^a,b   Sloane, Philip D ^a   McLean, Samuel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863986714     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01383.x     Document Type: Article

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