Background: Despite increasing emphasis on the role of clinical decision-support systems
(CDSSs) for improving care and reducing costs, evidence to support widespread use is …

The cervical collar has been routinely used for trauma patients for more than 30 years and is
a hallmark of state-of-the-art prehospital trauma care. However, the existing evidence for this …

The Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has an
ongoing effort to create evidence-based practice guidelines for orthopaedic physical therapy …

Background Health information technology (HIT) systems have the potential to reduce
delayed, missed or incorrect diagnoses. We describe and classify the current state of …

Cervicogenic dizziness (CGD) is a clinical syndrome characterized by the presence of
dizziness and associated neck pain. There are no definitive clinical or laboratory tests for …

Background: There is uncertainty about the optimal approach to screen for clinically
important cervical spine (C-spine) injury following blunt trauma. We conducted a systematic …

A complete guide to understanding cluster randomised trials Written by two researchers with
extensive experience in the field, this book presents a complete guide to the design …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Multiple, validated, evidence-based guidelines exist to
inform the appropriate use of computed tomography (CT) to differentiate mild traumatic brain …

STUDY OBJECTIVE:: Cervical spine injuries in children are rare. However, immobilization
and imaging for potential cervical spine injury after trauma are common and are associated …

Background: The Canadian CT Head Rule was developed to allow physicians to be more
selective when ordering computed tomography (CT) imaging for patients with minor head …