Research priorities in chest wall injury: A modified Delphi approach
Ashton B Christian1, Patrick T Delaplain, Areg Grigorian
1From the Division of Trauma, Burns and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery (A.B.C., P.T.D., A.G., J.N., E.T., W.Q.D., W.Y.R., S.D.S.), University of California, Irvine, Orange, California, and Department of Surgery (L.M.), University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota.
The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
|October 5, 2020
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