Trends of road traffic crashes in Sri Lanka
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Road traffic crashes, injury and fatality trends in Sri Lanka: 1938–2013
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1 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 2 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 3 Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, 4 Institute of Health Policy Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 5 Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, 6...
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عنوان ژورنال: Injury Prevention
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1353-8047
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2010.029215.921