Acute low back pain in the emergency department

Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 234-247

  Hayes, Karen ^a   Huckstadt, Alicia ^a   Daggett, Dana ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute low back pain; Emergency care; Focused physical examination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 33748422092     PISSN: 19314485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01261775-200607000-00010     Document Type: Article

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