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A matched-pair cluster design study protocol to evaluate implementation of the Canadian C-spine rule in hospital emergency departments: Phase III

BACKGROUND: Physicians in Canadian emergency departments (EDs) annually treat 185,000 alert and stable trauma victims who are at risk for cervical spine (C-spine) injury. However, only 0.9% of these patients have suffered a cervical spine fracture. Current use of radiography is not efficient. The Ca...

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Autores principales: Stiell, Ian G, Grimshaw, Jeremy, Wells, George A, Coyle, Doug, Lesiuk, Howard J, Rowe, Brian H, Brison, Robert J, Schull, Michael John, Lee, Jacques, Clement, Catherine M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17288613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-2-4