Comparison of indices of traumatic brain injury severity: Glasgow Coma Scale, length of coma and post-traumatic amnesia

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 678-685

  Sherer, M ^a,b   Struchen, M A ^a,b   Yablon, S A ^c,d   Wang, Y ^e   Nick, T G ^e,f  

^a TIRR MEMORIAL HERMANN   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c METHODIST REHABILITATION CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; COMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORIENTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUPIL REFLEX; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; CLASSIFICATION; DISABILITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AMNESIA; BRAIN INJURIES; COMA, POST-HEAD INJURY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFLEX, PUPILLARY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 44449139007     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.111187     Document Type: Article

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