National Emergency X-radiography Utilization Study: Doing what's right for your patients [1]

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 406-407

  Hoffman, Jerome R ^a   Mower, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUNT TRAUMA; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LETTER; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY;

EID: 28544442982     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2005.00767.x     Document Type: Letter

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