Open AccessUse of CT for Head Trauma: 2007–2015
Author(s) -
Brett Burstein,
Julia Upton,
Heloisa Fuzaro Terra,
Mark I. Neuman
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.611
H-Index - 345
eISSN - 1098-4275
pISSN - 0031-4005
DOI - 10.1542/peds.2018-0814
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , triage , odds ratio , emergency department , logistic regression , neuroimaging , head trauma , pediatrics , poison control , emergency medicine , surgery , psychiatry
International efforts have been focused on identifying children at low risk of clinically important traumatic brain injury in whom computed tomography (CT) neuroimaging can be avoided. We sought to determine if CT use for pediatric head trauma has decreased among US emergency departments (EDs).
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