Non-fatal head injury among Scottish young people: the importance of assault
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Non-fatal head injury among Scottish young people: the importance of assault.
Head injury is a major cause of death and severe disability. 2 In the UK, mortality attributable to head injury was estimated at 7/100 000 in 1994, with most estimates of age specific hospital admission rates attributable to head injury ranging between 200–300/100 000. Children and young people seem to be at greatest relative risk. A peak in the age specific incidence of fatal or hospitalised h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.54.1.77