Disconnect between charted vestibular diagnoses and emergency department management decisions: A cross-sectional analysis from a nationally representative sample

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 970-977

  Newman Toker, David E ^a   Camargo Jr , Carlos A ^b   Hsieh, Yu Hsiang ^a   Pelletier, Andrea J ^b   Edlow, Jonathan A ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross sectional studies; Diagnosis; Dizziness; Medical error; Vertigo; Vestibular diseases

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; MECLOZINE;

ACUTE PERIPHERAL VESTIBULOPATHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIZZINESS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LABYRINTHITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; UNITED STATES; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS;

EID: 70350067568     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00523.x     Document Type: Article

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