Association between alcohol and mortality in patients with severe traumatic head injury

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1185-1191

  Tien, Homer C N ^a,b   Tremblay, Lorraine N ^a   Rizoli, Sandro B ^a   Gelberg, Jacob ^a   Chughtai, Talat ^a   Tikuisis, Peter ^c   Shek, Pang ^c   Brenneman, Frederick D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE   (Canada)

^c DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33845612828     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.141.12.1185     Document Type: Article

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