Trauma in adolescents causes long-term marked deficits in quality of life: Adolescent children do not recover preinjury quality of life or function up to two years postinjury compared to national norms

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 577-583

  Holbrook, Troy Lisa ^a,e   Hoyt, David B ^c   Coimbra, Raul ^a   Potenza, Bruce ^a   Sise, Michael J ^d   Sack, Dan I ^d   Anderson, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; National qualityof life norms; Quality of life outcomes; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; CHILDHOOD INJURY; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBIDITY; NOTE; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34147182634     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318031aa97     Document Type: Article

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