Effects of establishing a trauma center on the mortality rate among injured pediatric patients in Japan

Takashi Muguruma; Chiaki Toida; Masayasu Gakumazawa; Naoki Yogo; Mafumi Shinohara; Ichiro Takeuchi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0217140

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Effects of establishing a trauma center on the mortality rate among injured pediatric patients in Japan

Takashi Muguruma ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Muguruma, Chiaki Toida, Masayasu Gakumazawa, Naoki Yogo, Mafumi Shinohara, Ichiro Takeuchi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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Chiaki Toida ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Muguruma, Chiaki Toida, Masayasu Gakumazawa, Naoki Yogo, Mafumi Shinohara, Ichiro Takeuchi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: toida-ygc@umin.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4551-4841

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Masayasu Gakumazawa ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Muguruma, Chiaki Toida, Masayasu Gakumazawa, Naoki Yogo, Mafumi Shinohara, Ichiro Takeuchi

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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Naoki Yogo ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Muguruma, Chiaki Toida, Masayasu Gakumazawa, Naoki Yogo, Mafumi Shinohara, Ichiro Takeuchi

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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Mafumi Shinohara ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Muguruma, Chiaki Toida, Masayasu Gakumazawa, Naoki Yogo, Mafumi Shinohara, Ichiro Takeuchi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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Ichiro Takeuchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Takashi Muguruma, Chiaki Toida, Masayasu Gakumazawa, Naoki Yogo, Mafumi Shinohara, Ichiro Takeuchi

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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Effects of establishing a trauma center on the mortality rate among injured pediatric patients in Japan

Takashi Muguruma,
Chiaki Toida,
Masayasu Gakumazawa,
Naoki Yogo,
Mafumi Shinohara,
Ichiro Takeuchi

Published: May 23, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217140

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