Tracking the big picture during wartime: A national trauma registry perspective

Teva Amir1, Tomer Talmy, Irina Radomislensky

  • 1Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Surgeon General's Headquarters, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan (T.A., T.T., G.K., I.D., D.A., H.G., P.E., A.S., A.B.); Division of Anesthesia, Intensive Care & Pain Management, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center; Gray Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (T.T); Department of Military Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem (T.T.); Israel National Center for Trauma & Emergency Medicine Research, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan (T.T., I.R., A.G., S.G.); Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, Sheba Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (P.E.); Orthopedic Department, Emek Medical Center, Afula (A.S.); Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed (A.B.); The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan (A.A.); The Dina Recanati School of Medicine, Reichman University, Herzliyya (A.A.); and Department of Surgery, Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson Campus), Petah Tikva, Israel (S.G.).

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