Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 2 , Pages 208-212, February 2009

Should the Digital Rectal Examination Be a Part of the Trauma Secondary Survey?

  • Abigail D. Hankin, MD, MPH

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Abigail D. Hankin, MD, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104; 215-605-7645, fax 215-662-3953
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  • Jill M. Baren, MD, MBE

published online 17 November 2008.

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    •  From the Editor—Emergency physicians must often make decisions about patient management without clear-cut data of sufficient quality to support clinical guidelines or evidence-based reviews. Topics in the Best Available Evidence section must be relevant to emergency physicians, are formally peer reviewed, and must have a sufficient literature base to draw a reasonable conclusion but not such a large literature base that a traditional “evidence-based” review, meta-analysis, or systematic review can be performed.

     Supervising editor: Judd E. Hollander, MD

     Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement.

     Reprints not available from the authors.

    PII: S0196-0644(08)01780-0

    doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.09.016

    Annals of Emergency Medicine
    Volume 53, Issue 2 , Pages 208-212, February 2009