Utilizing clinical factors to reduce head CT scan ordering for minor head trauma patients

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 453-457

  Miller, Erik C ^a,b   Holmes, James F ^a   Derlet, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Cost savings; Head CT scan; Head trauma; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST CONTROL; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NAUSEA; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SKULL FRACTURE; VOMITING;

ADULT; AMNESIA; CHILD; COST CONTROL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 0030743491     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-4679(97)00071-1     Document Type: Article

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