Audit of head injury management in Accident and Emergency at two hospitals: Implications for Nice CT guidelines

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-20

  Miller, L ^a   Kent, R M ^a   Tennant, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOMITING; ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING;

EID: 2942674674     PISSN: 14726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-4-7     Document Type: Article

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