Emergency physician gender and head computed tomography orders for older adults who have fallen

CONCLUSIONS: There was no significant association between physician gender and ordering head CT scans for older emergency patients who had fallen. For patients where CT scans were ordered, there was no significant relationship between physician gender and the diagnosis of clinically important intracranial bleeding.PMID:38644592 | DOI:10.1111/acem.14928

Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - April 22, 2024 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Rhys Kraft Mathew Mercuri Natasha Clayton Andrew Worster Eric Mercier Marcel Emond Catherine Varner Shelley L McLeod Debra Eagles Ian Stiell David Barbic Judy Morris Rebecca Jeanmonod Yoan K Kagoma Ashkan Shoamanesh Paul T Engels Sunjay Sharma Alexandra P Source Type: research