Kevin Chu, Anne-Maree Kelly, Win Sen Kuan, Frances B Kinnear, Gerben Keijzers, Daniel Horner, Said Laribi, Alejandro Cardozo, Mehmet Akif Karamercan, Sharon Klim, Tissa Wijeratne, Sinan Kamona, Colin A Graham, Richard Body, Tom Roberts
OBJECTIVES: Only a small proportion of patients presenting to an ED with headache have a serious cause. The SNNOOP10 criteria, which incorporates red and orange flags for serious causes, has been proposed but not well studied. This project aims to compare the proportion of patients with 10 commonly accepted red flag criteria (singly and in combination) between patients with and without a diagnosis of serious secondary headache in a large, multinational cohort of ED patients presenting with headache...
April 24, 2024: Emergency Medicine Journal: EMJ