Are we failing injured pediatrics in rural Canada?

J W Lee¹, I R Drennan^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Air Ambulance and Critical Care Transport, Ornge, Mississauga, ON, Canada. jlee@ornge.ca.
² Air Ambulance and Critical Care Transport, Ornge, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Emergency Services and Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Editorial

J W Lee et al. CJEM. 2024 Mar.

. 2024 Mar;26(3):143-144.

doi: 10.1007/s43678-024-00668-6.

J W Lee¹, I R Drennan^{2

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¹ Air Ambulance and Critical Care Transport, Ornge, Mississauga, ON, Canada. jlee@ornge.ca.
² Air Ambulance and Critical Care Transport, Ornge, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
³ Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Emergency Services and Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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