Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network head injury clinical prediction rules are reliable in practice

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 427-431

  Schonfeld, Deborah ^a,b   Bressan, Silvia ^c   Dalt, Liviana Da ^c   Henien, Mira N ^a   Winnett, Jill A ^a   Nigrovic, Lise E ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPLIED RESEARCH; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTUBATION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY CARE APPLIED RESEARCH NETWORK; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNITED STATES; AGE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD CARE; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PREDICTION RULE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; INTERMEDIATE RISK PATIENT; LOW RISK PATIENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKULL FRACTURE;

ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84898548424     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-305004     Document Type: Article

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