American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 656-664, July 2011

Diagnostic imaging rates for head injury in the ED and states' medical malpractice tort reforms

  • Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. Tel.: +1 415 353 4946; fax: +1 415 353 2790.
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  • Charles E. McCulloch, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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  • Alex Ding, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
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  • Christopher Quale, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Genomic Health, Redwood City, CA 94063-4700, USA
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  • Philip W. Chu, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

Received 7 October 2009; received in revised form 26 January 2010; accepted 27 January 2010. published online 14 July 2010.

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PII: S0735-6757(10)00040-9

doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2010.01.038

Refers to erratum:

  • Erratum

    American Journal of Emergency Medicine September 2011 (Vol. 29, Issue 7, Page 839)

American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Volume 29, Issue 6 , Pages 656-664, July 2011