Guidelines for lumbar spine radiography in acute low back pain: effect of implementation in an accident and emergency department.

Guidelines for lumbar spine radiography were agreed by consultation between staff in the radiology, accident and emergency and neurosurgical departments of a large teaching hospital. Study of 322 consecutive patients over an eight month period showed that the proportion of patients referred for radi...

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Autores principales: Tracey, N. G., Martin, J. B., McKinstry, C. S., Mathew, B. M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ulster Medical Society 1994
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2449101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8658989
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author Tracey, N. G.
Martin, J. B.
McKinstry, C. S.
Mathew, B. M.
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description Guidelines for lumbar spine radiography were agreed by consultation between staff in the radiology, accident and emergency and neurosurgical departments of a large teaching hospital. Study of 322 consecutive patients over an eight month period showed that the proportion of patients referred for radiography was reduced from 48.4% to 27.2% following introduction of the guidelines (p = 0.0002). Successful use of such guidelines requires cooperation between clinical and radiological staff and frequent review of performance.
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spelling pubmed-24491012008-07-10 Guidelines for lumbar spine radiography in acute low back pain: effect of implementation in an accident and emergency department. Tracey, N. G. Martin, J. B. McKinstry, C. S. Mathew, B. M. Ulster Med J Research Article Guidelines for lumbar spine radiography were agreed by consultation between staff in the radiology, accident and emergency and neurosurgical departments of a large teaching hospital. Study of 322 consecutive patients over an eight month period showed that the proportion of patients referred for radiography was reduced from 48.4% to 27.2% following introduction of the guidelines (p = 0.0002). Successful use of such guidelines requires cooperation between clinical and radiological staff and frequent review of performance. Ulster Medical Society 1994-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2449101/ /pubmed/8658989 Text en
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title Guidelines for lumbar spine radiography in acute low back pain: effect of implementation in an accident and emergency department.
title_full Guidelines for lumbar spine radiography in acute low back pain: effect of implementation in an accident and emergency department.
title_fullStr Guidelines for lumbar spine radiography in acute low back pain: effect of implementation in an accident and emergency department.
title_full_unstemmed Guidelines for lumbar spine radiography in acute low back pain: effect of implementation in an accident and emergency department.
title_short Guidelines for lumbar spine radiography in acute low back pain: effect of implementation in an accident and emergency department.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2449101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8658989
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