Guidelines for the treatment of severe traumatic brain injury: Are they used?

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1013-1015

  Piper, Lydia C ^a   Zogg, Cheryl K ^b,c   Schneider, Eric B ^a   Orman, Jean A ^d   Rasmussen, Todd E ^e   Blackbourne, Lorne H ^f   Haider, Adil H ^b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LETTER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURIES; INJURY SCALE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

BRAIN INJURIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE;

EID: 84944790447     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: 21686262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2015.1838     Document Type: Letter

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