Screening performance of the chest X-ray in adult blunt trauma evaluation: Is it effective and what does it miss?

Although chest x-ray (CXR) is often used as a screening tool for thoracic injury in adult blunt trauma assessment, its screening performance is unclear. Using chest CT as the referent standard, we sought to determine the screening performance of CXR for injury. We analyzed data from the NEXUS Chest...

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Published inThe American journal of emergency medicine Vol. 49; pp. 310 - 314
Main Authors Dillon, David G., Rodriguez, Robert M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Elsevier Inc 01.11.2021
Elsevier Limited
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