Provisional reporting of polytrauma CT by on-call radiology registrars. Is it Safe?

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 616-622

  Briggs, R H ^a   Rowbotham, E ^a   Johnstone, A L ^a   Chalmers, A G ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; LUNG CONTUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PELVIS INJURY; POLYTRAUMA COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RIB FRACTURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE FRACTURE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX INJURY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVALUATION; INJURY; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RADIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149263576     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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