Validating a verbal autopsy tool to assess pre-hospital trauma mortality burden in a resource-poor setting
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine & International Health
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1360-2276
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12268