Validation of the Ottawa Ankle Rules in Iran: A prospective survey

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Yazdani, Shahram ^a   Jahandideh, Hesam ^a   Ghofrani, Hossein ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANKLE INJURY; ANKLE RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33644655674     PISSN: 1471227X     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-6-3     Document Type: Article

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