Intracerebral hemorrhage: Balancing death versus disability

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2214-2215

  Tirschwell, David L ^a   Creutzfeldt, Claire J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Death; Disability; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Outcomes; Prognosis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

BARTHEL INDEX; BASAL GANGLION HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMA; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIOTOMY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; NOTE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS;

CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DECISION MAKING; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 47249164804     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31817e2605     Document Type: Editorial

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