Emergency department neuroimaging: Are we using our heads?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 262-264

  Tabas, Jeffrey A ^a   Hsia, Renee Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION INJURY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951536678     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.519     Document Type: Article

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