Traps for the unwary in estimating person based injury incidence using hospital discharge data.

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Published in Inj Prev on December 01, 2002

Authors

J Langley1, S Stephenson, C Cryer, B Borman

Author Affiliations

1: Injury Prevention Research Unit, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. john.langley@ipru.otago.ac.nz

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