Medical complications and patient outcomes in Iranian veterans with spinal cord injury

Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 269-275

  Javadi, Masoud ^a   Hafezi nejad, Nima ^b,c   Vaccaro, Alexander R ^d   Vafa, Rahimi Movaghar ^b,e  

^a JANBAZAN MEDICAL AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER JMERC   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Complications; Epidemiology; Spinal cord injury; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECUBITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IRANIAN PEOPLE; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORAX INJURY; VETERAN; ANXIETY DISORDER; ASTHMA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ICD-10; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCRIPTION; SOLITARY KIDNEY; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PRESSURE ULCER; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; VETERANS;

EID: 84902211006     PISSN: 18995276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17219/acem/37075     Document Type: Article

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