Neurosurgical Treatment Variation of Traumatic Brain Injury: Evaluation of Acute Subdural Hematoma Management in Belgium and the Netherlands

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 881-889

  Van Essen, Thomas A ^a,b   De Ruiter, Godard C W ^b   Kho, Kuan H ^c,d   Peul, Wilco C ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^c MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ASDH; TBI; Treatment variation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NETHERLANDS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROSURGEON; NEUROSURGERY; ONLINE SYSTEM; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; BELGIUM; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NEUROSURGEONS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS';

EID: 85012938810     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2016.4495     Document Type: Article

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