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 possiblethat 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 statisticallysign...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/60d4b2fh |