A loglogistic model for altitude decompression sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 965-970

  Kannan, Nandini ^a   Raychaudhuri, Aparna ^a   Pilmanis, Andrew A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGENATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPACE FLIGHT;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031696171     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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