Systematic review of the prevalence and characteristics of battle casualties from NATO coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan

Injury

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1028-1034

  Hoencamp, Rigo ^a   Vermetten, Eric ^a   Tan, Edward C T H ^b   Putter, Hein ^a   Leenen, Luke P H ^c   Hamming, Jaap F ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Battle; Combat; Explosive; Military; Systematic review; Wound

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; AFGHANISTAN; ARMY; AUTOMUTILATION; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; BURN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPLOSION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD AND NECK INJURY; HUMAN; IRAQ; LIMB INJURY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLDIER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WAR; BLAST INJURIES; INJURY SCALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; PATHOLOGY; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; BLAST INJURIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 84901634939     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2014.02.012     Document Type: Review

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