Mortality and injuries among iranians in iraq-iran war: A systematic review

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 542-550

  Salamati, Payman ^a   Razavi, Seyed Mansour ^b   Shokraneh, Farhad ^c   Torabi, Saman Mohazzab ^d   Laal, Marjan ^a   Hadjati, Gholamreza ^e   Khaji, Ali ^a   Movaghar, Vafa Rahimi ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e AJA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iran; Mortality; Review; War; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BOMB; CHEMICAL WARFARE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; IRAN; IRAQ; LANDMINE; MORTALITY; SEX RATIO; SUICIDE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VETERAN; VICTIM; WAR;

CHEMICAL WARFARE; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRAN; IRAQ; MALE; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84883252181     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: 17353947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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