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Publication Date: 1987
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Epidemiology of Pediatric Closed Head Injury: Incidence, Clinical Characteristics, and Risk Factors.
Goldstein, Felicia C.; Levin, Harvey S.
Journal of Learning Disabilities, v20 n9 p518-25 Nov 1987
The paper reviews the epidemiology of pediatric closed head injury. Incidence rates, etiologic/pathophysiologic correlates, and associated risk factors are discussed. Suggestions offered for future research concern relationships among age, etiology, and pathophysiology in outcome studies and premorbid measures of personality/intellectual functioning. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Epidemiology, Etiology, Incidence, Injuries, Neurological Impairments, Outcomes of Treatment, Research Needs
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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