Trauma-related preventable deaths in Berlin 2010: Need to change prehospital management strategies and trauma management education

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1154-1161

  Kleber, C ^a   Giesecke, M T ^a   Tsokos, M ^a   Haas, N P ^a   Buschmann, C T ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BERLIN; CAUSE OF DEATH; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMATOLOGY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84885572672     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-013-1964-2     Document Type: Article

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