Looking beyond discharge: Clinical variables at trauma admission predict long term survival in the older severely injured patient

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bala, Miklosh ^a   Kashuk, Jeffry L ^b   Willner, Dafna ^a   Kaluzhni, Dima ^a   Bdolah Abram, Tali ^a   Almogy, Gidon ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b EM Care Acute Care Surgery   (United States)

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EID: 84892769563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17497922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-7922-9-10     Document Type: Article

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