COMPARATIVE MORBIDITY OF VEHICULAR INJURIES IN HEAD AND NON-HEAD INJURED PATIENTS

This scientific poster presentation presents an analysis of the completed Major Trauma Outcome Study (MTOS) dataset to compare the morbidity of patients with head injuries (HI) with that of patients with no head injury (NHI). Findings suggest that surviving HI patients were more impaired than the NHI group at hospital discharge. Previous analysis of this data set showed that head injuries remain the most important single injury contributing to traumatic mortality. This presentation documents that this is also true for the morbidity of survivors. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 873507.

• Corporate Authors:

  ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE (AAAM)

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• Authors:
  • Gennarelli, T A
  • CHAMPION, H R
  • COPES, W S
  • Sacco, W J
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE MEDICINE, SEPTEMBER 21-23, 1994, LYON, FRANCE
• Publication Date: 1994

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 442-3

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Crash severity; Diseases and medical conditions; Fatalities; Forecasting; Head; Hospitals; Information processing; Injuries; Injury severity
• Geographic Terms: United States
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 8655: Data processing; 1602: Fatality; 132: Forecast; 2177: Hospital; 2163: Injury; 2154: Medical aspects; 1623: Severity (accid, injury); 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00714328
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 27 1995 12:00AM