Validation of the sensitivity of the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) Head computed tomographic (CT) decision instrument for selective imaging of blunt head injury patients: An observational study

BACKGROUND: Clinicians, afraid of missing intracranial injuries, liberally obtain computed tomographic (CT) head imaging in blunt trauma patients. Prior work suggests that clinical criteria (National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study [NEXUS] Head CT decision instrument [DI]) can reliably ide...

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Autores principales: Mower, William R., Gupta, Malkeet, Rodriguez, Robert, Hendey, Gregory W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5507397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28700585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002313

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5507397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28700585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002313

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