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Adverse Events from Emergency Physician Pediatric Extremity Radiograph Interpretations: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Faisal Al-SaniSoni PrasadJyoti PanwarJennifer StimecArash KhosroawshahiTrent MizziMark CampKeith ColacoAdam KramerKathy Boutis
Published in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2019)
Emergency physician discordant pediatric MSK radiograph interpretations that resulted in an AE occurred with regular frequency in a pediatric ED setting. AEs were primarily an increase in subsequent health care visits. Importantly, a low clinical suspicion for a fracture or injury located in the joint were risk factors for ED physician discordant interpretations.
Keyphrases
  • emergency department
  • healthcare
  • primary care
  • public health
  • hip fracture
  • health insurance