Outpatient burn management and unnecessary referrals
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Outpatient burn management and unnecessary referrals.
BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the profile of burn patients presented in our polyclinic and evaluate the current status in comparison to the treatment methods of past series. METHODS Burn patients presented in the polyclinic in a one-year period were included into this prospective study. The records of all patients were examined in respect of gender, age, burn percentage, burn locat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1306-696X,1307-7945
DOI: 10.5505/tjtes.2015.89217