Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 3 , Pages 395-402, September 2003

The Canadian C-Spine rule performs better than unstructured physician judgment☆

  • Glen Bandiera, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Glen Bandiera, MD, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Center, Suite BG-13, 2075 Bayview Avenue, North York, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5
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  • Ian G Stiell, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • George A Wells, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Catherine Clement, RN

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Epidemiology Unit, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Valerie De Maio, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Epidemiology Unit, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Katherine L Vandemheen, BScN

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Epidemiology Unit, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Gary H Greenberg, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Howard Lesiuk, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurosurgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Robert Brison, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario; the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Daniel Cass, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Jonathan Dreyer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario; the Division of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Mary A Eisenhauer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario; the Division of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Iain MacPhail, MD, MHSc

      Affiliations

    • University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario; and the Division of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • R.Douglas McKnight, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario; and the Division of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Laurie Morrison, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Mark Reardon, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Michael Schull, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • James Worthington, MBBS

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Canadian C-Spine and CT Head Study Group

Received 18 October 2002; received in revised form 9 April 2003; accepted 15 April 2003.

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☆ Dr. Stiell holds a Distinguished Investigator Award and Dr. Schull a New Investigator Award, both from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.Supported by peer-reviewed grants from the Medical Research Council of Canada (MT-13699) and the Ontario Ministry of Health Emergency Health Services Committee (11896N).Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(03)00422-0

doi:10.1016/S0196-0644(03)00422-0

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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 3 , Pages 395-402, September 2003

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