Is aggressive treatment of traumatic brain injury cost-effective?: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1106-1113

  Whitmore, Robert G ^a   Thawani, Jayesh P ^a   Grady, M Sean ^a   Levine, Joshua M ^a   Sanborn, Matthew R ^a   Stein, Sherman C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Decompressive hemicraniectomy; Intracranial pressure monitoring; Quality adjusted life year; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION TREE; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LONG TERM CARE; LONGEVITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CRANIOTOMY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860757014     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.1.JNS11962     Document Type: Article

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