Predicting outcome in the slow to respond traumatically brain-injured patient: Acute and subacute parameters

NeuroRehabilitation

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-32

  Zafonte, Ross D ^a   Hammond, Flora M ^b   Peterson, Jill ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Charlotte Inst of Rehabilitation   (United States)

Author keywords

Disability; Function; Outcome; Prognostication; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BRAIN INJURY; COMA; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0030048219     PISSN: 10538135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1053-8135(95)00145-X     Document Type: Review

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