Clinician judgment versus a decision rule for identifying children at risk of traumatic brain injury on computed tomography after blunt head trauma

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 61-65

  Palchak, Michael J ^a   Holmes, James F ^a   Kuppermann, Nathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Head trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RATING SCALE; RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 66249107433     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e318196e9c0     Document Type: Article

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