Failure of the miller criteria to predict significant intracranial injury in patients with a glasgow coma scale score of 14 after minor head trauma

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 788-792

  Holmes, James F ^a,c   Baier, Mark E ^b   Derlet, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Decision rule; Glasgow Coma Scale score; Head injury; Outcome; Practice guideline

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0030796170     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03786.x     Document Type: Article

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