Modern Medicine Is Neglecting Road Traffic Crashes

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Redelmeier, Donald A ^a,b,c,d,e   McLellan, Barry A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Canada   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVOR; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC MEDICINE; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; HUMANS; LOBBYING; MEDICINE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84879339068     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001463     Document Type: Article

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