Racial disparities in mortality after severe traumatic brain injury in childhood: mediators identified by Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of trauma registry data
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عنوان ژورنال: Injury Epidemiology
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2197-1714
DOI: 10.1186/s40621-020-00295-6