Pediatric traumatic brain injury: Do racial/ethnic disparities exist in brain injury severity, mortality, or medical disposition?

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4 SUPPL. 5, 2005, Pages

  Howard, Ivory ^b   Joseph, Jill G ^a,b   Natale, Jo Anne E ^a,b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Racial ethnic diparities; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; MORTALITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS;

EID: 29244447351     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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