Computed Tomography Use for Adults With Head Injury: Describing Likely Avoidable Emergency Department Imaging Based on the Canadian CT Head Rule - Concepedia

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Computed Tomography Use for Adults With Head Injury: Describing Likely Avoidable Emergency Department Imaging Based on the Canadian CT Head Rule

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2017

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Adam L. Sharp, Ganesh Nagaraj, Ellen J. Rippberger, Ernest Shen, Clifford J. Swap, Matthew Silver, Taylor McCormick, David R. Vinson, Jerome R. Hoffman

Academic Emergency Medicine

Abstract

About one-third of head CTs currently performed on adults with head injury may be avoidable by applying the CCHR. Avoidance of CT in such patients is unlikely to miss any important injuries.

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