Mortality factors in geriatric blunt trauma patients: Creation of a highly predictive statistical model for mortality using 50,765 consecutive elderly trauma admissions from the national sample project

American Surgeon

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1369-1375

  Hranjec, Tjasa ^a   Sawyer, Robert G ^a   Young, Jeffrey S ^a   Swenson, Brian R ^a   Calland, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BENCHMARKING; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 84871068720     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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