Two worst injuries in different body regions are associated with higher mortality than two worst injuries in the same body region

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 802-805

  Moore, Lynne ^a   Lavoie, André ^a   Le Sage, Natalie ^a   Liberman, Moishe ^b   Bergeron, Eric ^c  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body region injured; Injury severity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; CLASSIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; QUEBEC; REGISTRIES;

EID: 33646488936     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000200838.55420.ad     Document Type: Article

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