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SUBMITTER: Hasler RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3229733 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hasler Rebecca M RM Exadaktylos Aristomenis K AK Bouamra Omar O Benneker Lorin M LM Clancy Mike M Sieber Robert R Zimmermann Heinz H Lecky Fiona F
European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society 20110605 12
This is a European cohort study on predictors of spinal injury in adult (≥16 years) major trauma patients, using prospectively collected data of the Trauma Audit and Research Network from 1988 to 2009. Predictors for spinal fractures/dislocations or spinal cord injury were determined using univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis. 250,584 patients were analysed. 24,000 patients (9.6%) sustained spinal fractures/dislocations alone and 4,489 (1.8%) sustained spinal cord injury with ...[more]