The costs and utility of imaging in evaluating dizzy patients in the emergency room

Laryngoscope

Volumn 123, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2250-2253

  Ahsan, Syed F ^a   Syamal, Mausumi N ^a   Yaremchuk, Kathleen ^a   Peterson, Edward ^b   Seidman, Michael ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; cost savings; Dizziness; emergency room evaluations; magnetic resonance imaging; neurological signs and symptoms; vertigo

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BASILAR ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST CONTROL; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DIZZINESS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST SAVINGS; DIZZINESS; EMERGENCY ROOM EVALUATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGICAL SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS; VERTIGO;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIZZINESS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTIGO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883158461     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23798     Document Type: Article

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