Prospective double-blinded study of abdominal-pelvic computed tomography guided by the region of tenderness: Estimation of detection of acute pathology and radiation exposure reduction

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 126-134

  Broder, Joshua S ^a   Hollingsworth, Caroline L ^a   Miller, Chad M ^a   Meyer, Jennifer L ^a   Paulson, Erik K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PELVIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955285639     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.11.023     Document Type: Article

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