Association of temperature and humidity with trauma deaths

Trauma Monthly

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Kalankesh, Laleh Ranandeh ^a   Mansouri, Fatemeh ^a   Khanjani, Narges ^a,b  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Death; Humidity; Injury; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; INJURY; IRAN; MALE; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84954171565     PISSN: 22517464     EISSN: 22517472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/traumamon.23403     Document Type: Article

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