Predicting outcomes after blunt chest wall trauma: Development and external validation of a new prognostic model

Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Battle, Ceri E ^a,b,c   Hutchings, Hayley ^a   Lovett, Simon ^a   Bouamra, Omar ^d   Jones, Sally ^e   Sen, Aruni ^f   Gagg, James ^g   Robinson, David ^h   Hartford Beynon, Jake ⁱ   Williams, Jeremy ^j   Evans, Adrian ^a,c  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MORRISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NISCHR Haemostasis Biomedical Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL GWENT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f WREXHAM MAELOR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g MUSGROVE PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h BRADFORD ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ YSBYTY GWYNEDD   (United Kingdom)

^j WEST WALES GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; EMERGENCY WARD; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FALLING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB FRACTURE; SPORT INJURY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX WALL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THORACIC INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 84903999446     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc13873     Document Type: Article

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