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Canadian CT Head Rule: a standalone construct

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Emergency medicine

a decision rule identifying which alert patients with minor head injury need CT, based on high-risk and medium-risk factors.

In emergency medicine, Canadian CT Head Rule refers to a decision rule identifying which alert patients with minor head injury need CT, based on high-risk and medium-risk factors. This meaning comes from Stiell (2001) in The Lancet.[1]

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head3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs injury2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two carriers minor3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three carriers

References

Stiell, I. G., Wells, G. A., Vandemheen, K., Clement, C., Lesiuk, H., Laupacis, A., McKnight, R. D., Verbeek, R., Brison, R., Cass, D., Eisenhauer, M. A., Greenberg, G. H., & Worthington, J. (2001). The Canadian CT Head Rule for patients with minor head injury. The Lancet, 357(9266), 1391-1396. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(00)04561-x

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