Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 22, Issue 4 , Pages 725-739 , August 2008

Road traffic injuries: a stocktaking

  • Dinesh Mohan, PhD (Volvo Chair Professor)

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doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2008.05.004

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