Effect of patients' age on management of acute intracranial haematoma: Prospective national study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 325, Issue 7371, 2002, Pages 1001-1003

  Munro, Philip T ^a   Smith, Rik D ^b   Parke, Timothy R J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0037010357     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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