Severe head injury and the risk of early death

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1054-1059

  Boto, G R ^a,b   Gomez P A ^b   De La Cruz, J ^b   Lobato, R D ^b  

^a Hospital 12 de Octubre ^*  (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33747387937     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.087056     Document Type: Article

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