Ankle radiograph utilization after learning a decision rule: A 12-month follow-up

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 776-779

  Verbeek, P Richard ^a,c   Stiell, Ian G ^b   Hebert, Guy ^a   Sellens, Cathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ankle injuries; Decision making; Emergency medicine; Ottawa ankle rules; Radiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE INJURY; ANKLE RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANADA; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030860474     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03783.x     Document Type: Article

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