A consensus-based criterion standard definition for pediatric patients who needed the highest-level trauma team activation
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2163-0755
DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000000543