Re: Confounding by indication in retrospective studies of intracerebral hemorrhage: Antiepileptic treatment and mortality

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 285-286

  Naidech, Andrew M ^a   Maas, Matthew B ^a   Liotta, Eric M ^a   Guth, James C ^a   Bauer, Rebecca M ^a   Garg, Rajeev K ^b   Schuele, Stephan U ^a   Bleck, Thomas P ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; PHENYTOIN; PLACEBO;

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; INTRACREBRAL HEMORRHAGE SCORE; LETTER; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SEIZURE; SMOKING; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84879692205     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-012-9811-0     Document Type: Letter

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