Decompression illness medically reported by hyperbaric treatment facilities: Cluster analysis of 1929 cases

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-7

  Ozyigit, Tamer ^a   Egi, Salih Murat ^a   Denoble, Petar ^b   Balestra, Costantino ^d   Aydin, Salih ^f   Vann, Richard ^c   Marroni, Alessandro ^e  

^a GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Peter B Bennett Center   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Haute Ecole Paul Henri Spaak (Brussels)   (Italy)

^e Divers Alert Network Europe Research Division   (Italy)

^f ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Decompression sickness; Diving; Multivariate statistics; Signs and symptoms

Indexed keywords

EUCLIDIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74049114109     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2495.2010     Document Type: Article

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