Traumatic brain injury in the United States: An epidemiologic overview

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 105-110

  Summers, Carl R ^a   Ivins, Brian ^a   Schwab, Karen A ^a  

^a Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Head injury; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BLAST INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MILITARY PHENOMENA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNITED STATES; BRAIN INJURY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; WAR;

BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; CAUSALITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 66849097645     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20100     Document Type: Review

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