Violence-related injury of children in Israel: age-dependent pattern

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the population of children hospitalized as a result of violence. METHODS: This retrospective study used data from the Israeli National Trauma Registry on patients aged 0-17 years hospitalized for trauma during 1998-2006. Of 65 430 patients, 2060 (3.1%) had violence-related...

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Main Authors: Michael Rozenfeld, Kobi Peleg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2009-05-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862009000500013&lng=en&tlng=en