Costs of vasospasm in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 345-351

  Chou, Chia Hung ^a   Reed, Shelby D ^a   Allsbrook, Jennifer S ^a   Steele, Janet L ^b   Schulman, Kevin A ^a   Alexander, Michael J ^b  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs and cost analysis; Length of stay; Mortality; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COHORT STUDIES; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 77954966054     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000371980.08391.71     Document Type: Article

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