Clinical decision rule to prevent unnecessary chest X-ray in patients with blunt multiple traumas

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 561-566

  Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Safari, Saeed ^a   Niazazari, Maryam ^a   Baratloo, Alireza ^a   Hashemi, Behrooz ^a   Hatamabadi, Hamid Reza ^b   Rahmati, Farhad ^a   Taheri, Morteza Sanei ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Clinical prediction rule; Multiple traumas; Patient selection; Thoracic radiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CRACKLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABRASION; TACHYPNEA; THORAX INJURY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; AGED; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THORACIC INJURIES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924481511     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12302     Document Type: Article

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