Assessment of medicare's imaging efficiency measure for emergency department patients with atraumatic headache

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 280-290

  Schuur, Jeremiah D ^a,b   Brown, Michael D ^c   Cheung, Dickson S ^d   Graff IV, Louis ^e,l   Griffey, Richard T ^f   Hamedani, Azita G ^g   Kelly, John J ^h   Klauer, Kevin ^i,m   Phelan, Michael ^j   Sierzenski, Paul R ^k   Raja, Ali S ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Carepoint PC   (United States)

^e NEW BRITAIN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Emergency Medicine Physicians Ltd   (United States)

^j LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m SUMMA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT MEASURE 15; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDITY;

EID: 84865464005     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.12.025     Document Type: Article

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