Screening for blunt cerebrovascular injuries is cost-effective

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1051-1056

  Kaye, Deborah ^a   Brasel, Karen J ^b   Neideen, Todd ^b   Weigelt, John A ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid injury; Cost effectiveness; Decision analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLUNT CAROTID VERTEBRAL INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; HEALTH CARE COST; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENT;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955769088     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318211857d     Document Type: Article

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