Mortality prediction in head trauma patients: Performance of Glasgow Coma Score and general severity systems

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 142-148

  Álvarez, Manuel ^a   Nava, Juan Manuel ^a   Rué, Montse ^b   Quintana, Salvador ^a  

^a HOSPITAL MÚTUA DE TERRASSA   (Spain)

^b Consorci Hospitalari Pare Taull de Sabadell ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Critical illness; Glasgow Coma Score; Head trauma patients; Hospital mortality; Intensive care unit; Logistic regression; Mortality prediction; Outcome; Severity of illness index; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; APACHE; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EUROPE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORTH AMERICA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031984258     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199801000-00030     Document Type: Article

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