Ottawa Knee Rule: A comparison of physician and triage-nurse utilization of a decision rule for knee injury radiography

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 147-150

  Matteucci, Michael John ^a   Roos, Joel Andrew ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision rule; Knee injury; Ottawa Knee Rule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FIBULA; GAIT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; KNEE INJURY; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; LIMB FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSE; PATELLA; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EID: 0037330926     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-4679(02)00716-3     Document Type: Article

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