multiple binary diagnostic testssensitivity and specificityweighted kappa coefficientntroduction Road traffic accidents are a major cause of injury and trauma in Uganda, of which head injuries are a major cause of morbidity and mortality among casualties.Objectives To determine the leading cause of head...
A prospective epidemiological study of 3095 patients with head injury admitted to Brisbane neurosurgical units is presented. Falls were the commonest cause of injury overall (42%) but traffic accidents were the leading cause of severe head injury Glasgow Coma Scale ([GCS] 8 or less) and had a...
They had a diagnosis of pneumonia (n = 1740) or laceration or other wound(n = 2282) and no diagnostic code indicating head injury. Another 4509 veterans had codes suggesting closed head injury. We obtained military medical records for 3460 of the veterans with putative head injuries from the...
Clinical data were collected before diagnostic tests as far as possible by using forms the clinicians could fill in for each patient. The head CT scans were performed according to a routine trauma protocol at each hospital. Sample size was based on 20 eligible variables in multivariable logistic ...
Objective To summarize the diagnostic and therapeutic experience of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage(SAH)presenting with head injury.Methods Between June 2003 and June 2008,55 cases with aneurysmal SAH presenting with head injury were included in this study.According to the relationship between SAH and...
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et al. Diagnostic procedures in mild traumatic brain injury: results of the WHO Collaborating Centre Task Force on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. J Rehabil Med. 2004;(43 suppl) 61-7515083871Google Scholar 7. Haydel MJ, Preston CA, Mills TJ, Luber S, Blaudeau E, DeBlieux PM. Indications ...
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382 Vestibular and stabilometric findings in whiplash injury and minor head trauma Table IV. Percentage of patients with pathologic static stabilometry in the three tests performed within 15 days of the trauma (baseline) and after reha- bilitation therapy (control). Baseline ...
Objective To determine the relation of perinatal brain injury, as detected by neonatal head ultrasound, to psychiatric disorders in adolescents who were born prematurely. Design Prospective cohort. Setting Community. Participants Adolescent survivors of a population-based low-birth-weight (<2000 g; 96%...