Fatality and severity of firearm injuries in a denver trauma center, 2000-2013

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 315, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 2465-2467

  Sauaia, Angela ^a   Gonzalez, Eduardo ^b   Moore, Hunter B ^b   Bol, Kirk ^c   Moore, Ernest E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Air Pollution Control Division   (United States)

^d DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAULT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALLING; FATALITY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STAB WOUND; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLORADO; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FIREARM; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIOLENCE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLORADO; FIREARMS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGISTRIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 84974815381     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.5978     Document Type: Letter

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