Effects of gender on outcomes after traumatic brain injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1620-1626

  Leitgeb, Johannes ^a   Mauritz, Walter ^a,b,c   Brazinova, Alexandra ^c,d   Janciak, Ivan ^c   Majdan, Marek ^c,d   Wilbacher, Ingrid ^c   Rusnak, Martin ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Unfallkrankenhaus Lorenz Bohler   (Austria)

^c International Neurotrauma Research Organization INRO   (Austria)

^d TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Gender; Outcome; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUSTRIA; BRAIN INJURIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 84355166725     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318226ea0e     Document Type: Article

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