Impact of guidelines for the management of minor head injury on the utilization and diagnostic yield of CT over two decades, using natural language processing in a large dataset.

Journal: European radiology
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: We investigated the impact of clinical guidelines for the management of minor head injury on utilization and diagnostic yield of head CT over two decades.

Authors

  • Ewoud Pons
    Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam.
  • Kelly A Foks
    Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. k.foks@erasmusmc.nl.
  • Diederik W J Dippel
    Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  • M G Myriam Hunink
    From the Departments of Radiology (E.P., L.M.M.B., M.G.M.H.) and Medical Informatics (J.A.K.), Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands.