Is intracranial pressure monitoring still required in the management of severe traumatic brain injury? Ethical and methodological considerations on conducting clinical research in poor and low-income countries

Surgical Neurology International

Volumn 5, Issue Supplement, 2014, Pages

  Sahuquillo, Juan ^a   Biestro, Alberto ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZIDOVUDINE;

CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVIDENCE BASED NURSING; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VEGETATIVE STAGE;

EID: 84916231779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21527806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2152-7806.133993     Document Type: Review

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