Emergency department headache admissions in an acute care hospital: Why do they occur and what can we do about it?

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1007-1010

  Ang, Seng Hock ^a   Chan, Yee Cheun ^b   Mahadevan, Malcolm ^b  

^a CHANGI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Imaging; Lumbar puncture

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE AGONIST; PARACETAMOL; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY HEADACHE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY HEADACHE; SINGAPORE;

EID: 73249114447     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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