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Research Article

Incidence of hospital-admitted severe traumatic brain injury and in-hospital fatality rates in a Pacific Island country: A 5-year retrospective study

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Pages 1436-1440 | Received 09 Oct 2013, Accepted 26 Apr 2014, Published online: 20 Jun 2014

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