Computer Tomography (CT) for head injury: adherence to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) criteriaHead injuryguidelinesquality improvementinterventionsCT scansObjective Head injury is a common presentation to the emergency department yet adherence to guidelines for management is ...
Neurosurgery was performed in 14 (1.8%) patients and 27 (3.5%) patients died of a head injury-related death. Of those patients that did not fulfil the NICE 2007 criteria (n=2755), 54% (n=1473) had CT imaging on average 431 minutes after ED attendance. A significant CT finding was ...
Not a NICE CT protocol for the acutely head injured child To assess the impact of the introduction of the Birmingham Children's Hospital (BCH) head injury computed tomography (CT) guidelines, when compared with th... AP Willis,SAA Latif,S Chandratre,... - 《Clinical Radiology》 被引量: ...
The audit shows that all six people who were scanned met the NICE criteria. These data suggest that four times as many CT scans of the head will be required in each hospital under NICE guidelines, as are presently undertaken, and up to nine times as many under the less constrained ...
Computer Tomography (CT) for head injury: adherence to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) criteriaHead injuryguidelinesquality improvementinterventionsCT scansObjective Head injury is a common presentation to the emergency department yet adherence to guidelines for management is ...
In most other developed countries, the use of skull rays has long been abandoned in favour of the selected use of computed tomography (CT) scans in patients with head injuries. Although I appreciate the increased resource implications inherent in the implementation of these guidelines, I really ...
Elderly patients admitted with falls who had CT head scans were identified. Indication for scanning were evaluated to determine adherence with NICE guidelines for head injury. Between cycles, formal educational sessions were provided to Junior Doctors by departmental teaching and distributing leaflets/...
A letter to the editor is presented which compares the guidelines for diagnosing the risk of head injuries as put forth by Great Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to the risk factors as reported by Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a physician who lived in the first...
Objectives & Background Until January 2014, The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) Head Injury Guidelines (CG56) issued to clinicians advised anticoagulated patients with a head injury should only receive CT imaging if loss of consciousness or amnesia was experienced. These guidelines ...
A UK study has confirmed that National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines on managing head injury will save resources while maintaining patient safety. It should allay concerns about their cost effectiveness. The two centre case study—in a teaching hospital with regional ...