Temporal trends and volume-outcome associations after traumatic brain injury: A 12-year study in Taiwan: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 732-738

  Shi, Hon Yi ^a   Hwang, Shiuh Lin ^b,c   Lee, King Teh ^a,b   Lin, Chih Lung ^b,c  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hospital volume; Outcome analysis; Surgeon volume; Temporal trend; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGEON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TAIWAN; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875827649     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.12.JNS12693     Document Type: Article

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