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Craniocerebral injuries from dog bites.
Dr. Fernando Campos Gomes Pinto – Rua Bartira 1060 / 61 05009-000 São Paulo SP Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] Dog bites are increasingly being recognized as posing a major public health problem. In the U.S., Weiss et al. reported a rate of 12.9 per 10,000 persons, for dog-bite related injuries resulting in a total of 333,687 visits to Emergency Departments. Children most commonly f...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Review
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0002-8282
DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.8.2320