RT Book, Section
A1 Brasel, Karen J.
A2 Moore, Ernest E.
A2 Feliciano, David V.
A2 Mattox, Kenneth L.
SR Print(0)
ID 1147413363
T1 Epidemiology
T2 Trauma, 8e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071847292
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1147413363
RD 2024/04/19
AB Injury  is  not  an  “accident”  but  rather  a  disease,  much  like  malaria,  tuberculosis  and  other  public  health  problems,  or  cancer  and  heart  disease.  Injury,  like  other  diseases,  has  variants  such  as  blunt  or  penetrating.  It  has  degrees  of  severity,  rates  of  incidence,  prevalence,  and  mortality  that  can  differ  by  race  and  other  sociodemographic  factors.  Injuries  have  a  predictable  pattern  of  occurrence  related  to  age,  sex,  alcohol  and  other  drugs,  and  again,  sociodemographic  factors,  among  others.  They  also  have  a  predictable  prognosis,  based  on  age,  sociodemographic  factors,  as  well  as  injury  severity.