Guideline compliance in management of minimal, mild, and moderate head injury: High frequency of noncompliance among individual physicians despite strong guideline support from clinical leaders

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1309-1313

  Heskestad, Ben ^a,d   Baardsen, Roald ^b   Helseth, Eirik ^a   Ingebrigtsen, Tor ^c  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Guidelines; Head injury; Physicians compliance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; ALGORITHM; BRAIN INJURY; CLASSIFICATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; NORWAY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN INJURIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; NORWAY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIAGE;

EID: 67650641759     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31815e40cd     Document Type: Article

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