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Focus on Trauma

Evaluation and Comparison of Different Prehospital Triage Scores of Trauma Patients on In-Hospital Mortality

Pages 543-550 | Received 16 Mar 2018, Accepted 14 Nov 2018, Published online: 07 Jan 2019

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