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Major trauma was a Natural sciences good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
August 12, 2010	Peer review	Reviewed
July 17, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed
September 5, 2012	Peer review	Reviewed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles)
The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

This page was focused on by the Wikipedia spotlight collaboration drive on September 10, 2010 to September 25, 2010. (comparison)

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