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Canadian C-spine rule and the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) for detecting clinically important cervical spine injury following blunt trauma

To describe and compare the diagnostic accuracy of the Canadian C-spine rule and the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) to screen for clinically important cervical spine injury (CSI) in patients following blunt trauma.

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Health topics:

Diagnosis > Diagnostic test accuracy

Orthopaedics & trauma > Spinal cord injury

Published:

11 April 2018

Authors:

Saragiotto BT, Maher CG, Lin C, Verhagen AP, Goergen S, Michaleff ZA

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Saragiotto BT, Maher CG, Lin C, Verhagen AP, Goergen S, Michaleff ZA. Canadian C-spine rule and the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) for detecting clinically important cervical spine injury following blunt trauma. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2018, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD012989. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD012989