Defining "therapeutically inconsequential" head computed tomographic findings in patients with blunt head trauma

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-56

  Atzema, Clare ^a   Mower, William R ^a   Hoffman, Jerome R ^a   Holmes, James F ^b   Killian, Anthony J ^c   Oman, Jennifer A ^d   Shen, Andrew H ^a   Greenwood, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University Medical Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLUNT HEAD TRAUMA; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3042791244     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.02.032     Document Type: Article

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