Clinico-epidemiological profile of burn patients admitted in a tertiary care hospital in coastal South India

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 660-667

  Kumar, Nithin ^a   Kanchan, Tanuj ^a   Unnikrishnan, B ^a   Rekha, T ^a   Mithra, Prasanna ^a   Venugopal, Anand ^a   Sundar, Sachin ^a   Raha, Shreya ^b  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Medicine in Kasturba Medical College   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BURN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIGION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTICEMIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOCK; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUICIDE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BURNS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866365063     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0b013e31824795b7     Document Type: Article

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