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Evaluation of the patient with spinal trauma and back pain: an evidence based approach
1Division of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
|April 2, 1999
Abstract:
The evaluation of spinal trauma and neck or back pain remains one of the most important and most common assessments in emergency medicine. This article provides an overview of an evidence based approach to this situation, and argues that appropriate use of imaging studies can reduce waste and better mitigate devastating outcomes to the patient.