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Patient and injury characteristics associated with road traffic mortality in general hospitals in southern Thailand Cover

Patient and injury characteristics associated with road traffic mortality in general hospitals in southern Thailand

Asian Biomedicine
Volume 13 (2019): Issue 2 (April 2019)
By: Sunee Kraonual,  Apiradee Lim,  Attachai Ueranantasun and  Sampurna Kakchapati  
Open Access
|Dec 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/abm-2019-0042 | Journal eISSN: 1875-855X | Journal ISSN: 1905-7415
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Language: English
Page range: 71 - 77
Published on: Dec 19, 2019
Published by: Chulalongkorn University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 6 issues per year
Keywords:
accidents,
traffic,
mortality,
wounds and injuries
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Assistive professions, nursing,
Basic medical science,
Basic medical science, other,
Clinical medicine,
Clinical medicine, other

© 2019 Sunee Kraonual, Apiradee Lim, Attachai Ueranantasun, Sampurna Kakchapati, published by Chulalongkorn University
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