Predictors of mortality in veterans with traumatic spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 784-788

  Rabadi, M H ^a,b   Mayanna, S K ^a   Vincent, A S ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortality; Observational; Retrospective; Spinal cord injury; Traumatic; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR INFECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECUBITUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NEUROGENIC BOWEL; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SURVIVAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VETERAN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE ULCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; VETERANS;

EID: 84885435483     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2013.77     Document Type: Article

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