Predicting intracranial hemorrhage after traumatic brain injury in low and middle-income countries: A prognostic model based on a large, multi-center, international cohort

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Subaiya, Saleena ^a   Roberts, Ian ^b   Komolafe, Edward ^c   Perel, Pablo ^b  

^a New York Presbyterian ^*  (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Intracranial hemorrhage; Neurosurgery; Trauma; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGEON; NEUROSURGERY; PROGNOSIS; PUPIL REFLEX; SEIZURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869100940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-12-17     Document Type: Article

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