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Recommendations for Uniform Reporting of Data following Major Trauma — The Utstein Style: An Initiative

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The document is published in collaboration with the following organisations: the European Society of Emergency Medicine (Leuven); the European Resuscitation Council (Antwerpen); the Air Medical Physician Association (Salt Lake City, US); the German Interdisciplinary Association of Critical Care Medicine; and the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. The document is to be published jointly in the following journals: 1) Trauma Care (ITACCS); 2) Resuscitation; 3) Prehospital and Disaster Medicine; 4) European Journal of Emergency Medicine; 5) Trauma and Emergency Medicine Journal (SA); 6) Emergency Medicine(Norway); 7) JEUR; and 8) Notfall und Rettungsmedizin (Germany).

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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 1999 , pp. 11 - 38
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1999

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