Increase in Non-Contrast Computerized Tomography Scans of the Head Following Popular Media Stories About Head Injury

INTRODUCTION: On March 18, 2009, actress Natasha Richardson died after a head injury. It is possible that the rate of patients presenting with mild head injury and receiving computed tomographies (CTs) may have been influenced by the Richardson event. We hypothesized that there was a statistically s...

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Autores principales: Pirotte, Matthew J., Courtney, D. Mark, Schmidt, Michael J., Mersey, Rachel Davis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2012
Materias:
Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3555574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23359108
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.12299

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