Agreement between routine emergency department care and clinical decision support recommended care in patients evaluated for mild traumatic brain injury

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 463-469

  Korley, Frederick K ^a   Morton, Melinda J ^a   Hill, Peter M ^a   Mundangepfupfu, Tichaendepi ^b   Zhou, Tingting ^c   Mohareb, Amir M ^c   Rothman, Richard E ^a  

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

^b LINCOLN MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEUROIMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84877879580     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12136     Document Type: Article

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