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CATCH: a clinical decision rule for the use of computed tomography in children with minor head injury

Martin H. Osmond, Terry P. Klassen, George A. Wells, Rhonda Correll, Anna Jarvis, Gary Joubert, Benoit Bailey, Laurel Chauvin-Kimoff, Martin Pusic, Don McConnell, Cheri Nijssen-Jordan, Norm Silver, Brett Taylor, Ian G. Stiell and ; for the Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) Head Injury Study Group
CMAJ March 09, 2010 182 (4) 341-348; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.091421
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    Box 1: Canadian Assessment of Tomography for Childhood Head injury: the CATCH rule

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  • Table 2: Management and outcomes for the 3866 patients

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  • Table 3: Association between variables (from history and physical examination) and presence of brain injury in children with a minor head injury (part 1 of 2)

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  • Table 3: Association between variables (from history and physical examination) and presence of brain injury in children with a minor head injury (part 2 of 2)

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  • Table 4: Association between variables related to mechanism of injury and presence of brain injury in children with a minor head injury

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  • Table 5: Performance of the four high-risk factors in the CATCH rule in relation to need for neurologic intervention in children with a minor head injury

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  • Table 6: Performance of all seven risk factors in the CATCH rule in relation to the presence of brain injury on CT scan in children with a minor head injury

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CATCH: a clinical decision rule for the use of computed tomography in children with minor head injury
Martin H. Osmond, Terry P. Klassen, George A. Wells, Rhonda Correll, Anna Jarvis, Gary Joubert, Benoit Bailey, Laurel Chauvin-Kimoff, Martin Pusic, Don McConnell, Cheri Nijssen-Jordan, Norm Silver, Brett Taylor, Ian G. Stiell
CMAJ Mar 2010, 182 (4) 341-348; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.091421

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CATCH: a clinical decision rule for the use of computed tomography in children with minor head injury
Martin H. Osmond, Terry P. Klassen, George A. Wells, Rhonda Correll, Anna Jarvis, Gary Joubert, Benoit Bailey, Laurel Chauvin-Kimoff, Martin Pusic, Don McConnell, Cheri Nijssen-Jordan, Norm Silver, Brett Taylor, Ian G. Stiell
CMAJ Mar 2010, 182 (4) 341-348; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.091421
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