Multivariate analysis of patients with head injury using quantification theory type II - With special reference to prediction of patient outcome

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 200-205

  Adachi, Shigeru ^a   Hirano, Nobuo ^a   Tanabe, Michiharu ^a   Watanabe, Takashi ^a   Inagaki, Hirotaka ^b   Ishii, Takashi ^b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Head injury; Multivariate analysis; Patient outcome; Quantification

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; SKULL FRACTURE; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034052493     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.40.200     Document Type: Article

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