Headache in the emergency department

Headache

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1276-1278

  Evans, Randolph W ^a   Friedman, Benjamin W ^b  

^a Montefiore Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUTALBITAL; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; HYDROMORPHONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; OPIATE; PETHIDINE; PROCHLORPERAZINE; PROMETHAZINE; SUMATRIPTAN;

BACTERIAL SINUSITIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS INFECTION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 80052416525     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2011.01982.x     Document Type: Note

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