The cost-effectiveness of diagnostic management strategies for adults with minor head injury

Injury

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1423-1431

  Holmes, M W ^a   Goodacre, S ^a   Stevenson, M D ^a   Pandor, A ^a   Pickering, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Diagnostic management strategies; Economic modelling; Minor head injuries; Quality adjusted life years

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OBSERVATION; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY DELAY;

ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864279084     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2011.07.017     Document Type: Article

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