10.15131/shef.data.11889966.v1
Abdullah Pandor
Abdullah
Pandor
Susan Harnan
Susan
Harnan
Stephen Goodacre
Stephen
Goodacre
Alastair Pickering
Alastair
Pickering
Angie Rees
Angie
Rees
Diagnostic accuracy of clinical characteristics following minor head injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis
The University of Sheffield
2020
Diagnostic accuracy research
head injury
systematic review
meta-analysis
intracranial
clinical decision making
Health Care
Health Economics
2020-02-25 10:57:01
Poster
https://orda.shef.ac.uk/articles/poster/Diagnostic_accuracy_of_clinical_characteristics_following_minor_head_injury_a_systematic_review_and_meta-analysis/11889966
Computed tomography (CT) of the head is the diagnostic standard for identifying
intracranial injury. Routine CT of all minor head injury patients would result in a
large number of normal CT scans being performed with associated risks of radiation
exposure and waste of health care resources. Clinical decision rules for minor head
injury patients incorporate a number of individual characteristics grouped together
to provide a tool for identifying those at risk of intracranial injury and in need of CT.
We performed a systematic review of the individual characteristics that contribute to
clinical decision making and calculated likelihood ratios of significance for each.