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Impact of falls on early mortality from severe traumatic brain injury

BACKGROUND: The causes of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) vary by age and other demographic characteristics. Mortality after trauma is higher for elderly than younger patients. This study is based on 2779 patients with severe TBI treated at 24 trauma centers enrolled in a New York State quality...

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Autores principales: Gerber, Linda M, Ni, Quanhong, Härtl, Roger, Ghajar, Jamshid
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19643003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-2897-3-9