Derivation of a clinical decision rule to guide the interhospital transfer of patients with blunt traumatic brain injury

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 855-860

  Newgard, Craig D ^a   Hedges, J R ^a   Stone, J V ^a   Lenfesty, B ^a   Diggs, B ^a   Arthur, M ^a   Mullins, R J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN INJURY; BREATHING RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OREGON; PATIENT TRANSFER; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 28844496263     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2004.020206     Document Type: Article

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