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Epidemiology of Polytrauma

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Epidemiology is the study of health and disease in populations, the scientific approach typifying public health medicine. The paradigms are somewhat different from the reductionist approach of much clinical science, which seeks to understand disease processes at an “omic” level. The rationale that underpins epidemiology suggests that effective disease control must begin and end by understanding the impact of a disease (and its prevention/management strategies) at a population level – globally, nationally, and locally – including the identification of vulnerable groups, etiological factors, and societal costs.

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  1. Trauma Audit and Research Network, Salford Royal Hospital, University of Manchester, Alford, Manchester, M6 8HD, UK

    Fiona E. Lecky

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Hans-Christoph Pape  & Andrew Peitzman  & 

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Medical CenterUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    C. William Schwab

  3. Leeds General Infirmary University Hospital Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University of Leeds, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK

    Peter V. Giannoudis

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Lecky, F.E., Bouamra, O., Woodford, M., Alexandrescu, R., O’Brien, S.J. (2010). Epidemiology of Polytrauma. In: Pape, HC., Peitzman, A., Schwab, C.W., Giannoudis, P.V. (eds) Damage Control Management in the Polytrauma Patient. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89508-6_2

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