Management of severe head injury: Institutional variations in care and effect on outcome

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1870-1876

  Bulger, Eileen M ^a   Nathens, Avery B ^a   Rivara, Frederick P ^a   Moore, Maria ^b   MacKenzie, Ellen J ^c   Jurkovich, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University HealthSystem Consortium   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Glasgow Coma Scale; Head injury; Intracranial pressure monitoring; Neurosurgery; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG BONE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036345150     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200208000-00033     Document Type: Article

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