Lessons of War: Turning Data Into Decisions

EBioMedicine

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1235-1242

  Forsberg, Jonathan A ^a,b,f   Potter, Benjamin K ^a,f   Wagner, Matthew B ^a,b,f   Vickers, Andrew ^c   Dente, Christopher J ^e,f   Kirk, Allan D ^d,f   Elster, Eric A ^a,b,f  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f Surgical Critical Care Initiative (SC2i)   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical decision support; Combat trauma; Decision analysis; Inflammation; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

EOTAXIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 7; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; AUTACOID;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; APACHE; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNDING; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WAR; WOUND CLOSURE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WARFARE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

BAYES THEOREM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WARFARE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84953741328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23523964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.07.022     Document Type: Article

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