Quantifying the hospitalised morbidity and mortality attributable to traumatic injury using a population-based matched cohort in Australia

BMJ Open

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Mitchell, Rebecca J ^a   Cameron, Cate M ^b   Mcclure, Rod ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

comorbidity; health service use; hospitalisation; injury; mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INJURY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY RISK; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; AGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 85006063971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013266     Document Type: Article

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