Diagnostic management strategies for adults and children with minor head injury: A systematic review and an economic evaluation

Health Technology Assessment

Volumn 15, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 1-202

  Pandor, A ^a   Goodacre, S ^a   Harnan, S ^a   Holmes, M ^a   Pickering, A ^a   Fitzgerald, P ^a   Rees, A ^a   Stevenson, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; S100 CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMNESIA; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY STUDIES TOOL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL FRACTURE; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VALIDATION STUDY; VOMITING;

ADULT; CHILD; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PATIENT ADMISSION; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATE MEDICINE; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053145027     PISSN: 13665278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3310/hta15270     Document Type: Review

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