Ali S Raja, Jennifer Lanning, Arian Gower, Mark I Langdorf, Daniel K Nishijima, Brigitte M Baumann, Gregory W Hendey, Anthony J Medak, William R Mower, Robert M Rodriguez
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The NEXUS chest decision instrument identifies a very-low-risk population of patients with blunt trauma for whom chest imaging can be avoided. However, it requires that all 7 National Emergency X-Ray Utilization Study (NEXUS) chest criteria be absent. To inform patient and physician shared decisionmaking about imaging, we describe the test characteristics of individual criteria of the NEXUS chest decision instrument and provide the prevalence of injuries when 1, 2, or 3 of the 7 criteria are present...
August 2016: Annals of Emergency Medicine