Early Neurosurgical Procedures Enhance Survival in Blunt Head Injury: Propensity Score Analysis

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-123

  Hedges, Jerris R ^a   Newgard, Craig D ^a   Veum Stone, Judith ^b   Selden, Nathan R ^a   Adams, Annette L ^a   Diggs, Brian S ^b   Arthur, Melanie ^c   Mullins, Richard J ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

blunt head injury; craniotomy; injury survival; intracranial pressure monitor; propensity score; trauma center; trauma outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; EDEMA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL FRACTURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; CRANIOTOMY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OREGON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT TRANSFER; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; VENTRICULOSTOMY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 67651177597     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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