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01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Early clinical indices predicting functional survival in severely head-injured patients
Authors:
M Zouka, G Tsaousi, E Anastasiou, E Geka, E Euthymiou, I Soultati, M Giannakou
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
Given the burden of disability arising from severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) [
1], plain assessment of mortality certainly underestimates the impact of TBI. Therefore, risk prediction models need to provide poor neurological outcome estimates other than mortality. The aim of the study was to determine whether a simple combination of early clinical indices may be predictive of disability after ICU discharge. …