NICE guideline for the management of head injury: An audit demonstrating its impact on a district general hospital, with a cost analysis for England and Wales

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 109-113

  Shravat, B P ^a   Huseyin, T S ^a   Hynes, K A ^a  

^a BARNET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKLOAD;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WALES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33645076540     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2004.022327     Document Type: Article

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