Life expectancy in cerebral palsy: an updateDavid Strauss
Life Expectancy Project, 1439 17th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
Dev Med Child Neurol 50:487-93. 2008
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Survival in cerebral palsy in the last 20 years: signs of improvement?David Strauss
Life Expectancy Project, San Francisco, CA 94122 3402, USA
Dev Med Child Neurol 49:86-92. 2007
..Gastrostomy feeding has become much more widespread over the past two decades, and the improved survival of persons with gastrostomies may reflect better understanding of their requirements...
- Rating the raters: evaluating the predictions from a life expectancy rating service
Robert Shavelle
Life Expectancy Project, 1439 17th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
J Insur Med 41:178-90. 2009
..The method is explained in detail here and illustrated with the results from a large portfolio of policies...
- Economic factors and longevity in spinal cord injury: a reappraisal
David Strauss
Life Expectancy Project, San Francisco, CA 94122 3402, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89:572-4. 2008
..To review and reassess the findings of Krause and colleagues on the effect of economic and other risk factors on life expectancy after spinal cord injury, using an expanded and updated database...
- Low weight, morbidity, and mortality in children with cerebral palsy: new clinical growth charts
Jordan Brooks
Life Expectancy Project, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
Pediatrics 128:e299-307. 2011
..To determine the percentiles of weight for age in cerebral palsy according to gender and Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) level and to identify weights associated with negative health outcomes...
- Decline in function and life expectancy of older persons with cerebral palsy
David Strauss
University of California Life Expectancy Project, 1439 17th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122 3402, USA
NeuroRehabilitation 19:69-78. 2004
..Survival rates of the ambulatory older adults were only moderately worse than the general population. Survival was, however, much poorer among those who had lost mobility...
- Excess mortality in remote symptomatic epilepsy
Steven Day
University of California Life Expectancy Project, Department of Pediatrics and Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, USA
J Insur Med 35:155-60. 2003
..This article offers evidence that epilepsy per se is associated with excess mortality. The excess varies according to severity and frequency of seizures...
- Life expectancy after traumatic brain injury
David Strauss
NeuroRehabilitation 19:257-8. 2004
- Cognitive function in tetraplegic cerebral palsy with severe motor dysfunction
David Strauss
Dev Med Child Neurol 47:562. 2005
