tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Incidence of hospital referred head injuries in Norway: A population based survey from the Stavanger region"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học quốc tế cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Incidence of hospital referred head injuries in Norway: A population based survey from the Stavanger region | Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine BioMed Central Original research Incidence of hospital referred head injuries in Norway A population based survey from the Stavanger region Ben Heskestad1 2 Roald Baardsen2 Eirik Helseth1 Bertil Romner3 Knut Waterloo4 and Tor Ingebrigtsen 3 Open Access Address Department of Neurosurgery Ullevâl University Hospital Oslo Norway 2Department of Neurosurgery Stavanger University Hospital Stavanger Norway 3Department of Neurosurgery Institute for Clinical Medicine University of Tromso Tromso Norway and 4Department of neurology University Hospital of North Norway Tromso Norway Email Ben Heskestad - Roald Baardsen - baar@ Eirik Helseth - Bertil Romner - Knut Waterloo - Tor Ingebrigtsen - Corresponding author Published 20 February 2009 Received 14 September 2008 z __ _ Accepted 20 February 2009 Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17 6 doi l757-724l-l7-6 This article is available from http content l7 lZ6 2009 Heskestad et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background In three previous Norwegian studies conducted between l974 and l993 the annual incidence rates of hospital admitted head injuries were 236 200 and l69 per l00 000 population. The aim of this study was to describe the incidence of head injury in the Stavanger region and to compare it with previous Norwegian studies. Methods All head injured patients referred to Stavanger University Hospital during