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rdf:type |
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lifeskim:mentions |
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pubmed:issue |
6
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pubmed:dateCreated |
2011-6-21
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pubmed:abstractText |
Physicians' fears of being sued may lead to defensive medical practices, such as ordering nonindicated medical imaging. We investigated the association between states' medical malpractice tort reforms and neurologic imaging rates for patients seen in the emergency department with mild head trauma.
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pubmed:commentsCorrections |
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pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal |
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pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:month |
Jul
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pubmed:issn |
1532-8171
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pubmed:author |
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pubmed:copyrightInfo |
Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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pubmed:issnType |
Electronic
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pubmed:volume |
29
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
656-64
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2011-10-11
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pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-Aged,
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-Aged, 80 and over,
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-Craniocerebral Trauma,
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-Defensive Medicine,
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-Diagnostic Imaging,
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-Health Care Reform,
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-Liability, Legal,
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-Logistic Models,
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-Malpractice,
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-Medicare,
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-Severity of Illness Index,
pubmed-meshheading:20630679-United States
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pubmed:year |
2011
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pubmed:articleTitle |
Diagnostic imaging rates for head injury in the ED and states' medical malpractice tort reforms.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, USA. rebecca.smith-bindman@radiology.ucsf.edu
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article
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