Computed Tomography Imaging in the Emergency Department: Benefits, Risks and Risk Ratios - 19/10/11
Section editors: Tyler W. Barrett, MD, MSCI; David L. Schriger, MD, MPH
Plan
Editor's Note: You are reading the 24th installment of Annals of Emergency Medicine Journal Club. This Journal Club refers to the Kocher et al article in the current issue.1 This bimonthly feature seeks to improve the critical appraisal skills of emergency physicians and other interested readers through a guided critique of actual Annals of Emergency Medicine articles. Each Journal Club will pose questions that encourage readers—be they clinicians, academics, residents, or medical students—to critically appraise the literature. During a 2- to 3-year cycle, we plan to ask questions that cover the main topics in research methodology and critical appraisal of the literature. To do this, we will select articles that use a variety of study designs and analytic techniques. These may or may not be the most clinically important articles in a specific issue, but they are articles that serve the mission of covering the clinical epidemiology curriculum. Journal Club entries are published in 2 phases. In the first phase, a list of questions about the article is published in the issue in which the article appears. Questions are rated “novice,” ( |
Vol 58 - N° 5
P. 463-464 - novembre 2011 Retour au numéroBienvenue sur EM-consulte, la référence des professionnels de santé.
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