Lateral automobile impacts and the risk of traumatic brain injury

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 142-152

  Bazarian, Jeffrey J ^a,b   Fisher, Susan Gross ^a   Flesher, William ^a   Lillis, Robert ^a   Knox, Kerry L ^a   Pearson, Thomas A ^a  

^a Dept Comm and Prev Med (Fisher   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3242770420     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.03.029     Document Type: Article

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