Precision and reliability of the glasgow coma scale score among a cohort of latin American prehospital emergency care providers

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 230-232

  Báez, Amado Alejandro ^a,b   Giráldez, Ediza M ^a,b   De Peña, Julio M ^b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Dominican Society of Prehospital Medicine   (Dominican Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Emergency Medical Services; Glasgow Coma Scale; injury; Latin America; prehospital; trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STANDARD;

BRAIN INJURIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LATIN AMERICA; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 35748945169     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00004726     Document Type: Article

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