10.15131/shef.data.11925606.v1
Abdullah Pandor
Abdullah
Pandor
Susan Harnan
Susan
Harnan
Stephen Goodacre
Stephen
Goodacre
Alastair Pickering
Alastair
Pickering
Patrick Fitzgerald
Patrick
Fitzgerald
Angie Rees
Angie
Rees
Diagnostic accuracy of clinical characteristics following minor head injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis
The University of Sheffield
2020
systematic review
head injury
intracranial injury
CT scan
computed tomography
clinical decision making
Meta-Analysis
Health Care
2020-03-03 16:05:46
Poster
https://orda.shef.ac.uk/articles/poster/Diagnostic_accuracy_of_clinical_characteristics_following_minor_head_injury_a_systematic_review_and_meta-analysis/11925606
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.