Determinants of mortality in patients with severe blunt head injury

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 285-290

  Schreiber, Martin A ^a,b   Aoki, Noriaki ^a   Scott, Bradford G ^a   Robert Beck, J ^a  

^a BEN TAUB GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CURVE FITTING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0036186220     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.137.3.285     Document Type: Article

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