Impact of the canadian ct head rule supplemented by the original published minimum inclusion criteria to assist emergency department clinicians’ assessment of patients presenting post fall from residential aged care: a retrospective

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Falls in older people are a common and serious emergency department (ED) presentation associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Well-established clinical decision rules exist to guide computed tomography (CT) recommendations in patients presenting to EDs with minor head injury; these include the most widely used Canadian CT Head Rule (CCHR). Clinicians have often interpreted this rule as suggesting that imaging should be performed on all patients aged ≥65 years with a proven or possible head strike, regardless of their clinical presentation or pre-morbid state and without considering the original inclusion criteria for . . .

 



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