Predictors of mortality in stroke patients admitted to an intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1301-1305

  Rordorf, Guy ^a   Koroshetz, Walter ^a   Efird, James T ^b   Cramer, Steven C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II score; Glasgow Coma Scale score; Intensive care unit; Mortality; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE;

EID: 0034081659     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200005000-00007     Document Type: Article

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