Patients with a head injury who “Talk and Die” in the 1990s

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 497-502

  Dunn, Laurence T ^a   Fitzpatrick, Michael O ^a   Beard, Diana ^b   Henry, Jennifer M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Head injury; Injury severity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; SPEECH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037350713     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000030627.71453.CD     Document Type: Article

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