Geographical disparity and traumatic brain injury in America: Rural areas suffer poorer outcomes

Significant heterogeneity exists in traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcomes. In the United States, TBI remains a primary driver of injury‐related mortality and morbidity. Prior work has suggested that disparity exists in rural areas; our objective was to evaluate potential differences in TBI mortality...

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Autores:
Brown, Joshua B
Kheng, Marin
Carney, Nancy A
Puyana, Juan Carlos
Rubiano, Andrés M.
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Fecha de publicación:
2019
Institución:
Universidad El Bosque
Repositorio:
Repositorio U. El Bosque
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unbosque.edu.co:20.500.12495/1682
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12495/1682
https://doi.org/10.4103/jnrp.jnrp_310_18
Palabra clave:
Lesiones traumáticas del encéfalo
Registros de mortalidad
Población rural
Traumatismos craneocerebrales
Disparity
Geographic
Lower-middle-income countries
Traumatic brain injury
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International