Rib fractures: Relationship with pneumonia and mortality

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1642-1646

  Brasel, Karen J ^a   Guse, Clare E ^a   Layde, Peter ^a   Weigelt, John A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest trauma; Comorbidity; Elderly; Mortality; Pneumonia; Rib fracture

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIB FRACTURES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 33744524583     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000217926.40975.4B     Document Type: Article

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