Early prediction of mortality in isolated head injury patients: A new predictive model

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 868-872

  Demetriades, Demetrios ^a,b   Kuncir, Eric ^a   Brown, Carlos V R ^a   Martin, Matthew ^a   Salim, Ali ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a   Chan, Linda S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; GCS; Head AIS; Head trauma; Mechanism of injury; Prediction; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 33750032007     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000219135.33398.f3     Document Type: Article

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