Profile and cost of head injury patients admitted to the Waikato Hospital Intensive Care Unit

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 111, Issue 1065, 1998, Pages 161-163

  Havill, Jack H ^a   Sleigh, Jamie W ^a   Kersel, Denyse A ^b   Marsh, Nigel V ^b  

^a WAIKATO HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032495879     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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