Routines required for management of minor head injury (MHI);Behov av handläggningsrutiner för lätt skallskadade patienter

Lakartidningen

Volumn 96, Issue 47, 1999, Pages 5196-5198

  Bellner, Johan ^a   Ingebrigtsen, Tor ^b   Romner, Bertil ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Regionsykehuset i Tromsö ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SWEDEN;

BRAIN INJURIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033600975     PISSN: 00237205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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