Effect of trauma center designation on outcome in patients with severe traumatic brain injury

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1213-1217

  DuBose, Joseph J ^a,b   Browder, Timothy ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Teixeira, Pedro G R ^a   Chan, Linda S ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INJURY SCALE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149350243     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.143.12.1213     Document Type: Review

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