Emergency physician gender and head computed tomography orders for older adults who have fallen.
Rhys KraftMathew MercuriNatasha ClaytonAndrew WorsterEric MercierMarcel ÉmondCatherine E VarnerShelley L McLeodDebra EaglesIan StiellDavid BarbicJudy MorrisRebecca JeanmonodYoan K KagomaAshkan ShoamaneshPaul T EngelsSunjay SharmaAlexandra PapaioannouSameer ParpiaIan BuchananMariyam AliKerstin de WitPublished in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2024)
There was no significant association between physician gender and ordering head CT scans for older emergency patients who had fallen. For patients where CT scans were ordered, there was no significant relationship between physician gender and the diagnosis of clinically important intracranial bleeding.
Keyphrases
- computed tomography
- emergency department
- dual energy
- contrast enhanced
- primary care
- positron emission tomography
- image quality
- optic nerve
- end stage renal disease
- public health
- magnetic resonance imaging
- mental health
- physical activity
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- prognostic factors
- magnetic resonance
- peritoneal dialysis
- atrial fibrillation
- patient reported outcomes
- emergency medical
- patient reported