Trends in visits for traumatic brain injury to emergency departments in the United States

JAMA

Volumn 311, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 1917-1919

  Marin, Jennifer R ^a   Weaver, Matthew D ^a   Yealy, Donald M ^a   Mannix, Rebekah C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONCUSSION; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE STRAIN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SPRAIN; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84900308676     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.3979     Document Type: Article

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