Long-term mortality of patients surviving firearm violence

Injury Prevention

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 129-134

  Fahimi, Jahan ^a,b   Larimer, Emily ^a   Hamud Ahmed, Walid ^a   Anderson, Erik ^b   Schnorr, C Daniel ^b   Yen, Irene ^a   Alter, Harrison J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HIGHLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CRIME VICTIM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FIREARM; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVOR; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

CALIFORNIA; CRIME VICTIMS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 84946854793     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041710     Document Type: Article

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