Resuscitation
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A comparison of European Trauma Registries: The first report from the EuroTARN Group

  • The EuroTARN Writing Committee on behalf of the EuroTARN Group

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding author. Antoinette Edwards, The University of Manchester, The Trauma Audit & Research Network, Clinical Sciences Building, Hope Hospital, Salford, Greater Manchester M6 8HD, United Kingdom. Tel.: +44 161 206 4397; fax: +44 161 206 4345. Email address: antoinette.edwards@manchester.ac.uk (A. Edwards).
    • The EuroTARN Writing Committee: Antoinette Edwards, Stefano Di Bartolomeo, Arturo Chieregato, Tim Coats, Francesco Della Corte, Peter Giannoudis, Ernestina Gomes, Henrik Groenborg, Rolf Lefering, Ari Leppaniemi, Hans Morten Lossius, Per Ortenwal, Olav Roise, Martin Rusnak, Leontien Sturms, Martin Smith, Annemarie Bondegaard Thomsen, Keith Willett, Maralyn Woodford, David Yates, Fiona Lecky.

Received 9 March 2007 ,Revised 7 June 2007 ,Accepted 11 June 2007.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the summary of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2007.06.023.

PII: S0300-9572(07)00314-0

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2007.06.023

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