The economic burden of road traffic injuries: Evidence from a provincial general hospital in Vietnam

Injury Prevention

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 79-84

  Nguyen, Ha ^a,b   Ivers, Rebecca Q ^a   Jan, Stephen ^a   Martiniuk, Alexandra L C ^a,c   Li, Qiang ^a   Pham, Cuong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HANOI UNIVERSITY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIET NAM;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875377625     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2011-040293     Document Type: Article

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