A crisis in the delivery of care to patients with brain injuries in South Texas

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 951-962

  Cohn, Stephen M ^a   Price, Michelle A ^a   Stewart, Ronald M ^a   Michalek, Joel E ^a   Dent, Daniel L ^a   McFarland, Marilyn J ^a   Pruitt, Basil A ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Head injury; Management; Neurosurgeon; Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BRAIN INJURY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BRAIN INJURIES; CRANIOTOMY; DATA COLLECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROSURGERY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUSAL TO TREAT; TEXAS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 34247248873     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000260131.79063.50     Document Type: Article

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