Improved survival in UK combat casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan: 2003-2012

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1014-1020

  Penn Barwell, Jowan G ^a   Roberts, Stuart A G ^b   Midwinter, Mark J ^a   Bishop, Jon R B ^a  

^a Queen Mary University of London and Barts NIHR BRC NHS Trust National Institute for Health and Care Research   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combat injuries; injury severity; survival; war

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARM; ARMY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; BODY REGIONS; FACE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; IRAQ; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVOR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THORAX; UNITED KINGDOM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORECASTING; INJURY; MORTALITY; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84928922716     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000580     Document Type: Article

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