Use of out-of-hospital variables to predict severity of injury in pediatric patients involved in motor vehicle crashes

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 481-491

  Newgard, Craig D ^a   Lewis, Roger J ^a,b   Jolly, B Tilman ^c  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0036237665     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2002.123549     Document Type: Article

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