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Q In patients with minor head injury, how do the Canadian CT Head Rule (CCHR) and the New Orleans Criteria (NOC) compare for selecting which patients should receive computed tomography (CT) scanning?
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METHODS
Design:
external validation of 2 previously developed clinical prediction guides (CCHR and NOC).
Setting:
4 university hospitals in the Netherlands.
Patients:
3181 patients ⩾16 years of age (mean age 41 y, 71% men) who presented within 24 hours after blunt head injury and had a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 13–14 or 15 with 1 of the following: history of loss of consciousness, short term memory deficit, amnesia for the traumatic event, post-traumatic seizure, vomiting, severe headache, intoxication with alcohol or drugs, use of anticoagulants or history of coagulopathy, injury above the clavicles, or neurological deficit. Patients who could not receive a CT scan because of concurrent injury …
Footnotes
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For correspondence: Dr M G M Hunink, Erasmus MC-University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. m.hunink{at}erasmusmc.nl
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Source of funding: College voor Zorgverzekeringen.
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