Validity of a set of clinical criteria to rule out injury to the cervical spine in patients with blunt trauma

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 343, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 94-99

  Hoffman, Jerome R ^a   Mower, William R ^a   Wolfson, Allan B ^c   Todd, Knox H ^d   Zucker, Michael I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UCLA Emergency Medicine Center ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0034644299     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200007133430203     Document Type: Article

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