Assessment of mortality in older trauma patients sustaining injuries from falls or motor vehicle collisions treated in regional level i trauma centers

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 488-495

  Sampalis, John S ^a,b,c,d   Nathanson, Robin ^a   Vaillancourt, Julie ^a,b   Nikolis, Andreas ^b,c   Liberman, Moishe ^a,b   Angelopoulos, John ^b   Krassakopoulos, Nickolaos ^b   Longo, Nadia ^a,b   Psaradellis, Eliofotisti ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^c HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHARLSON INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALLING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUEBEC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 63449106911     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31819a8b4f     Document Type: Article

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