Real textbooks or e-books: What is happening right now?: E-books cause remarkable decrease in ED visits for paper cuts ... but are responsible for more trigger finger injuries from 'pinching' e-pages

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 72-75

  Tintinalli, Judith E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; FINGER INJURY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIGGER FINGER; WRITING;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; INTERNET; LIBRARIES, DIGITAL; TEXTBOOKS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84893430778     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12189     Document Type: Editorial

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