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- Author's reply re: Cranial computed tomography in trauma: the accuracy of interpretation by staff inPublished on: 29 April 2016
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- Cranial computed tomography in trauma: The accuracy of interpretation by staff in the emergency deptPublished on: 29 April 2016
- Published on: 29 April 2016Author's reply re: Cranial computed tomography in trauma: the accuracy of interpretation by staff inShow More
Dear Editor,
We thank Dr Hynes and colleagues for their interest in our Paper (Emerg Med J 2005;22:538-540). To have selected participants would indeed have introduced a bias. The five permanent members of staff who read the images constituted the only five permanent members of staff at that time, and between them saw all out of hours CT head scans done from A&E for trauma.
We agree that only persons...
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None declared. - Published on: 29 April 2016Initial interpretation of head injury CT scans by A&E staff – the way forward?Show More
Dear Editor,
Mucci et al.[1] in their study have re-explored a possibility of scan interpretation by A&E staff, that is worth following up given the rising number of CT scans done for head injuries. The overall agreement and false negative rates demonstrated by the authors would be generally acceptable especially in the light of the fact that nothing that required a transfer to a neurosurgical unit was missed....
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None declared. - Published on: 29 April 2016Response to Mucci's study of "ED staff’s interpretation of cranial CTs in trauma"Show More
Dear Editor,
We read with interest Mucci’s[1] study of the accuracy of interpretation by ED staff of cranial CTs in trauma. It is a topical subject that needs exploring, but we have questions with their design.
Firstly, their study was underpowered with only 100 scans examined. The quoted sensitivity of 86.6% has too low a 95% confidence interval (83.4% to 89.9%) to propose trusting the reliability of thei...
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None declared. - Published on: 29 April 2016Cranial computed tomography in trauma: The accuracy of interpretation by staff in the emergency deptShow More
Dear Editor,
We read with interest the article Emerg Med J 2005;22:538-540 by Mucci, Brett, Huntley and Greene. In the methods section it mentions that the CT scans were reviewed retrospectively by five permanent members of the emergency department medical staff. We would be interested to know how these 5 members were chosen. Were there only five members of permanent medical staff in the acute Trust or were there...
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