Acute Headache Presentations to the Emergency Department: A Statewide Cross ‐sectional Study

ConclusionsThe majority of patients had a benign diagnosis, with intracranial hemorrhage and bacterial meningitis accounting for only 3% of the diagnoses. There are variations in the proportion of patients receiving CT head scans between city‐regional and principal‐referral hospitals. As 38% of headache presentations overall underwent CT scanning, there is scope to rationalize diagnostic testing to rule out life‐threatening conditions.

Source: Academic Emergency Medicine - January 11, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Kevin H. Chu, Tegwen E. Howell, Gerben Keijzers, Jeremy S. Furyk, Robert M. Eley, Frances B. Kinnear, Ogilvie Thom, Ibrahim Mahmoud, Anthony F. T. Brown Tags: Original Contribution Source Type: research