Growing trend in older patients with severe injuries: Mortality and mechanisms of injury between 1991 and 2010 at an inner city major trauma centre

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 65-69

  Dinh, Michael M ^a   Roncal, Susan ^a   Byrne, Christopher M ^a   Petchell, Jeffrey ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Elderly; Trend

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORTALITY; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84873059991     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2012.06180.x     Document Type: Article

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