Derivation of a clinical decision rule to exclude thoracic aortic imaging in patients with blunt chest trauma after motor vehicle collisions

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1150-1155

  Ungar, Todd C ^a   Wolf, Stephen J ^a   Haukoos, Jason S ^a,b   Dyer, Debra S ^b   Moore, Ernest E ^a  

^a DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic injury; Blunt chest trauma; Clinical decision rule; Motor vehicle collision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33750938704     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000239357.68782.30     Document Type: Article

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