Modification of glasgow coma scale criteria for injured elders

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1014-1021

  Caterino, Jeffrey M ^a   Raubenolt, Amy ^a,b   Cudnik, Michael T ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE REGISTRY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OHIO; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 80054709262     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01164.x     Document Type: Review

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