Traumatic Brain Injury: in-hospital Survival Rates and the Main Predictors of in-hospital Mortality in Northeastern Brazil*

Abstract

Introduction Upper middle-income countries have epidemiological peculiarities that should be considered to identify the main predictive factors of intrahospital mortality regarding traumatic brain injury (TBI) to address modifiable problems.

Keywords

• developing country
• mortality
• survival
• traumatic brain injury
• país em desenvolvimento
• mortalidade
• sobrevivência
• traumatismo cranioencefálico