Can anticoagulated patients be discharged home safely from the emergency department after minor head injury?

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 410-417

  Cohn, Brian ^a   Keim, Samuel M ^b   Sanders, Arthur B ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

anticoagulation; head injury; medical imaging; prognosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL HEALTH; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ANTICOAGULATION; HEAD INJURY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT SAFETY; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84896715195     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2013.08.107     Document Type: Article

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