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.

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.

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 identify patien...

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Main Authors: William R Mower, Malkeet Gupta, Robert Rodriguez, Gregory W Hendey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-07-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5507397?pdf=render

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