Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 22-25, July 2001

Test performance of the individual NEXUS low-risk clinical screening criteria for cervical spine injury☆☆☆★

Presented in part at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 2000.

  • Edward A. Panacek, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California–Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
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  • William R. Mower, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Emergency Medicine Center and Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
    • ,
  • James F. Holmes, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California–Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
    • ,
  • Jerome R. Hoffman, MA, MD

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Emergency Medicine Center and Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
    • ,
  • For the NEXUS Group

Received 6 March 2001; received in revised form 13 April 2001; accepted 18 April 2001.

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☆ Author contributions are provided at the end of this article.

☆☆ Supported by grant No. RO1 HS08239 from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

★ Address for reprints: Edward A. Panacek, MD, MPH, Division of Emergency Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center, 2315 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, CA,95817-2282; 916-734-8570,fax 916-734-7950;,E-mail eapanacek@ucdavis.edu .

PII: S0196-0644(01)76210-5

doi:10.1067/mem.2001.116499

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Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 22-25, July 2001

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