Predicting the clinical outcome of tetanus: the tetanus severity score.

Predicting the clinical outcome of tetanus: the tetanus severity score.

OBJECTIVES: To create a new tetanus score and compare it with the Phillips and Dakar scores. METHODS: We used prospectively acquired data from consecutive patients admitted to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, to create the Tetanus Severity Score (TSS) with multivariate logistic...

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Main Authors:	Thwaites, C, Yen, L, Glover, C, Tuan, P, Nga, N, Parry, J, Loan, H, Bethell, D, Day, N, White, N, Soni, N, Farrar, J
Format:	Journal article
Language:	English
Published:	2006

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