Burns
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1142-1146 , December 2009

The epidemiology of patients with burn injuries admitted to Norwegian hospitals in 2007

  • Henning Onarheim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, N-5021 Bergen, Norway
    • Section for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, N-5021 Bergen, Norway. Tel.: +47 55976850; fax: +47 55976898.
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  • Svein Arthur Jensen

      Affiliations

    • Burn Centre, Department of Surgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
    • ,
  • Bjørn Erik Rosenberg

      Affiliations

    • Burn Centre, Department of Surgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
    • ,
  • Anne Berit Guttormsen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, N-5021 Bergen, Norway
    • Section for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

,Accepted 24 June 2009.

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PII: S0305-4179(09)00407-0

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.06.191

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