The impact of risk factors and pre-existing conditions on the mortality of burn patients and the precision of predictive admission-scoring systems

Burns

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 195-203

  Germann, Gunter ^a   Barthold, U ^a   Lefering, R ^b   Raff, T ^a   Hartmann, B ^a  

^a BG Trauma Center   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; BURN; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG BURN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THICKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BURNS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 0030862529     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(96)00112-X     Document Type: Article

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