The impact of co-morbidities on age-related differences in mortality after acute traumatic spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1361-1367

  Furlan, Julio C ^a,b   Kattail, Deepa ^c   Fehlings, Michael G ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age; Aging; Co morbidity; Mortality; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALLING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; AGE; CERVICAL SPINE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68349098740     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2008.0764     Document Type: Article

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