Canadian CT Head Rule
Comparison of the Canadian CT head rule and the new orleans criteria in patients with minor head injury
... of CT in patients with MHI showed that both the CCHR and the NOC were sensitive for the outcome measure of any traumatic intracranial lesion on CT which is “clinically important” brain ...
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Effect of clinical decision rules, patient cost and malpractice information on clinician brain CT image ordering: a randomized controlled trial
... of head computed tomography (CT) imaging for mild head trauma patients has raised safety and cost ...decision rule (i.e. Canadian CT Head Rule - CCHR), findings ...
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Understanding the Canadian adult CT head rule trial: use of the theoretical domains framework for process evaluation
... a rule is dependent on clinicians’ consistently applying the rule exactly as it was derived and validated ...other head rules into the Canadian CT Head ...the rule, they ...
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Racial disparities in health care—emergency department management of minor head injury
... the CT Head Rule by Stiell et ...of CT head scans in cases of minor head injury was only affected by age in those 65 and ...of CT head scans in older patients where ...
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Emergency Physicians Awareness of Computed Tomography Indication in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Questionnaire Based Study
... minor head in- jury, 36.7% answered that the case as a moderate head injury, ...severe head injury while ...order head CT ...from head injury per month, ...of head ...
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Implementing evidence based recommended practices for the management of patients with mild traumatic brain injuries in Australian emergency care departments: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
... the Canadian CT Head Rule (CCTHR) to reduce unnecessary CT ...the rule, pocket cards and posters, and a 1-hour teaching session to review the evidence and clinical application of ...
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Application of NICE or SNC guidelines may reduce the need for computerized tomographies in patients with mild traumatic brain injury: a retrospective chart review and theoretical application of five guidelines
... of CT scans, various clinical guidelines have been ...the Canadian CT Head Rule (CCHR) and the New Orleans Criteria ...of CT scans in their derivation cohorts [6, ...for ...
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AWARENESS AND USE OF THE CANADIAN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY HEAD RULE FOR MILD HEAD INJURY PATIENTS AMONG EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS
... Mild head injury patients & emergency physicians as much as possible seems intuitively ...a CT scan compared to chest ...much CT is precipitated by knowledge gap of the ordering provider, a ...
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A prospective observational study to assess the diagnostic accuracy of clinical decision rules for children presenting to emergency departments after head injuries (protocol): The Australasian Paediatric Head Injury Rules Study (APHIRST)
... Background: Head injuries in children are responsible for a large number of emergency department ...based head injury clinical decision rules have been derived to aid physicians in identifying patients at ...
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To Head CT Scan or Not: The Clinical Quandary in Suspected Subarachnoid Hemorrhage; a Validation Study on Ottawa Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Rule
... to rule out ...negative CT scan, only one turns out to be positive for SAH ...clinical-decision rule could standardize the clinical judgment, improve physician comfort without ordering diagnostic ...
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Perfusion CT for Head and Neck Tumors: Pilot Study
... CT and MR imaging are routinely used to diagnose and stage cancers of the head and neck and to eval- uate treated patients with suspected recurrence. Re- liance on anatomic imaging has its drawbacks, as ...
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Rhabdomyosarcoma of the head and neck in adults: MR and CT findings
... the head and neck in ...the head and ...Contrast-enhanced CT was performed in 10 patients, and two patients had contrast-enhanced MR ...On CT scans, the masses enhanced to the same degree as ...
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Results: About one third of patients were >50 years of age (33%). Majority of patients were males (76%).
... Results: About one third of patients were >50 years of age (33%). Majority of patients were males (76%). RTA was the most common mode of injury (56%). The commonest type of fractures associated with head injury ...
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Sex-specific asymmetries in communication sound perception are not related to hand preference in an early primate
... their head in 86% of the conspecific com- munication calls and in 78% of the control ...a head turn asymmetry for any conspecific or control playback stimuli (binominal test: p ≥ ...significant head ...
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How to Reduce Head CT Orders in Children with Hydrocephalus Using the Lean Six Sigma Methodology: Experience at a Major Quaternary Care Academic Children's Center
... Health care delivery systems are complex, and each institution has its unique resources, qualities, and challenges. In our study, we deployed an LSS methodology for solving our problem. In this article, we summarize and ...
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Head Finalization: A Simple Reordering Rule for SOV Languages
... proposed rule- based preprocessing methods to mitigate this problem (Xu et ...ordering rule: Head ...or rule weights because the powerful Enju parser allows us to imple- ment the rule ...
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Improved Imaging Quality of the Pediatric Brain on Third-Generation CT
... second-generation CT with both FBP and IR, whereas on third-generation CT the visually assessed scores were higher at the level of the semiovale center, followed by the levels of the basal ganglia and the ...
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Clearing of Red Blood Cells in Lumbar Puncture Does Not Rule Out Ruptured Aneurysm in Patients with Suspected Subarachnoid Hemorrhage but Negative Head CT Findings
... The reliability of CSF clearing as a diagnostic tool has been discussed by many authors over the past 50 years (9, 17, 18). Although common sense suggests that it is an intrinsically limited test—a traumatic tap in a ...
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Measured Head CT/CTA Skin Dose and Intensive Care Unit Patient Cumulative Exposure
... Predicting Patient Skin Dose for ICU Clinical Examinations Patients in the ICU who received between 12 and 27 total CT examinations and several cerebral angiograms over a period of 2– 4 weeks were identified. In ...
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Irradiated paragangliomas of the head and neck: CT and MR appearance
... In fact, all tumors with posttreatment MR imaging that demonstrated diminutive flow voids, heterogeneous enhancement, or reduced T2 signal were imaged at least 12 months after the comple[r] ...
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