Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 4, Issue 2 , Pages 148-155 , June 2003

Posttraumatic stress disorder and injury

  • Nancy Kassam-Adams, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Nancy Kassam-Adams, PhD, Department of Psychology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4399 USA
    • Department of Psychology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    • ,
  • Joel A Fein, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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doi: 10.1016/S1522-8401(03)00019-3

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 4, Issue 2 , Pages 148-155 , June 2003

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