Identifying children at very low risk of clinically important blunt abdominal injuries

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Holmes, James F ^a   Lillis, Kathleen ^b   Monroe, David ^c   Borgialli, Dominic ^d   Kerrey, Benjamin T ^e   Mahajan, Prashant ^f   Adelgais, Kathleen ^g   Ellison, Angela M ^h   Yen, Kenneth ⁱ   Atabaki, Shireen ^j   Menaker, Jay ^k   Bonsu, Bema ^l   Quayle, Kimberly S ^m   Garcia, Madelyn ⁿ   Rogers, Alexander ^d   Blumberg, Stephen ^p   Lee, Lois ^q   Tunik, Michael ^r   Kooistra, Joshua ^s   Kwok, Maria ^t   Cook, Lawrence J ^g   Dean, J Michael ^g   Sokolove, Peter E ^a   Wisner, David H ^a   Ehrlich, Peter ^o   Cooper, Arthur ^u   Dayan, Peter S ^t   Wootton Gorges, Sandra ^a   Kuppermann, Nathan ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Howard County General Hospital   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

ⁱ MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^j CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^l NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^m WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^p ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^q HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^r NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^s HELEN DEVOS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^t Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^u Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW RISK POPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; APPENDICITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MULTICENTER STUDY;

APPENDICITIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84880573802     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.11.009     Document Type: Article

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