Prospective performance assessment of an out-of-hospital protocol for selective spine immobilization using clinical spine clearance criteria

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-131

  Domeier, Robert M ^a,b   Frederiksen, Shirley M ^a   Welch, Kathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Michigan ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INFANT; INTOXICATION; LIMB FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL PAIN; SPINE STABILIZATION; STAFF TRAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL INJURIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 22844447873     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.02.004     Document Type: Article

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