Risk factors for mortality within first 24 hours of head injury

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 573-577

  Ratan, Simmi K ^a,d   Pandey, Ravindra M ^b   Kulsreshtha, Rajiv ^a   Ratan, John ^c  

^a SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c SITARAM BHARTIA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (India)

^d NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Children; Early death; Head injury; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 0036636581     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02722680     Document Type: Article

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