Appraisal of early evaluation of blunt chest trauma: Development of a standardized scoring system for initial clinical decision making

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 496-504

  Pape, Hans Christoph ^a   Remmers, Dierk ^a   Rice, John ^a   Ebisch, Marc ^a   Krettek, Christian ^a   Tscherne, Harald ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FRACTURE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; LUNG INJURY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA;

EID: 0033775793     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200009000-00018     Document Type: Article

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