@article {Kontos171, author = {Andreas Kontos and Savvas Omorphos and Joel Desmond and K Mackway-Jones}, title = {Need for cervical spine imaging for alert children after trauma}, volume = {20}, number = {2}, pages = {171--171}, year = {2003}, doi = {10.1136/emj.20.2.171}, publisher = {British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine}, abstract = {A short cut review was carried out to establish whether clinical examination can be used to exclude cervical spine injury in alert children. Altogether 298 papers were found using the reported search, of which three presented the best evidence to answer the clinical question. The author, date and country of publication, patient group studied, study type, relevant outcomes, results, and study weaknesses of these best papers are tabulated. A clinical bottom line is stated.}, issn = {1472-0205}, URL = {https://emj.bmj.com/content/20/2/171.1}, eprint = {https://emj.bmj.com/content/20/2/171.1.full.pdf}, journal = {Emergency Medicine Journal} }