Epidemiological Trends of Spine Trauma: An Australian Level 1 Trauma Centre Study
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Epidemiological Trends of Spine Trauma: An Australian Level 1 Trauma Centre Study
Knowledge of current epidemiology and spine trauma trends assists in public resource allocation, fine-tuning of primary prevention methods, and benchmarking purposes. Data on all patients with traumatic spine injuries admitted to the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne between May 1, 2009, and January 1, 2011, were collected from the Alfred Trauma Registry, Alfred Health medical database, and Victorian ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Spine Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2192-5682,2192-5690
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1337124