Predictors of positive head CT scan and neurosurgical procedures after minor head trauma

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-37

  Kisat, Mehreen ^a,b   Zafar, Syed Nabeel ^b   Latif, Asad ^a   Villegas, Cassandra V ^a   Efron, David T ^a   Stevens, Kent A ^a   Haut, Elliott R ^a   Schneider, Eric B ^a   Zafar, Hasnain ^b   Haider, Adil H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

age; blunt trauma; disparities; ethnicity; gender; head injury; multivariate regression; outcomes

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857062455     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.04.059     Document Type: Article

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