Trends and outcome predictors after traumatic brain injury surgery: A nationwide population-based study in Taiwan

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1323-1330

  Shi, Hon Yi ^a   Hwang, Shiuh Lin ^b,c   Lee, I Chen ^a   Chen, I Te ^a   Lee, King Teh ^a,c   Lin, Chih Lung ^b,c  

^a Medical Informatics ^*  (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hospital resource utilization; Mortality rate; Predictors; Traumatic brain injury; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POPULATION SIZE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; SURGEON; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRAIN INJURIES; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE COST; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGEONS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84925223479     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.8.JNS131526     Document Type: Article

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