Use of neuroimaging in US emergency departments

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 260-262

  Raja, Ali S ^a,b   Andruchow, James ^a   Zane, Richard ^a,b   Khorasani, Ramin ^a,b   Schuur, Jeremiah D ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVULSION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPILEPSY; ETHNICITY; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951548559     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.520     Document Type: Article

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