Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Bull. World Health Organ. · Feb 2008
Individual and population burdens of major trauma in the Netherlands.
To assess the impact of major trauma on individual and population health. ⋯ Both at individual and population levels, major trauma has a massive impact on health. Most severely injured victims of road-traffic crashes reach the hospital and have good chances of survival. Injury prevention and trauma care policies should aim at further reduction of both fatalities and permanent consequences among survivors.