Abstract
Hospital discharge data collected from all acute care hospitals in Maryland were used to examine severity-specific rates of hospitalized head injuries in 1986. Findings indicate that males are at twice the risk of females for hospitalization for head injury; whites and nonwhites are at similar risk. Evidence that the rate of hospitalization for head injury may be increasing underscores the importance of head injury as a major public health problem in Maryland.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 725-732 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Maryland medical journal (Baltimore, Md. : 1985) |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| State | Published - Sep 1989 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine