Decision‐making for pediatric cervical spine imaging after blunt trauma: Investigating team dynamics in the emergency department
Megan E. Gregory,
Annie Truelove,
Fahd Ahmad
et al.
Abstract:ObjectiveCervical spine imaging decision‐making for pediatric traumas is complex and multidisciplinary. Implementing a risk assessment tool has the potential to reduce variation in these decisions and unnecessary radiation exposure for pediatric patients. We sought to determine how emergency department–trauma team dynamics may affect implementation of such a tool.MethodsWe interviewed (pediatric and general emergency physicians, trauma surgeons, neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons and ED nurses at 21 hospitals … Show more
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