Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Multicenter Study
Interrater reliability of criteria used in assessing blunt head injury patients for intracranial injuries.
To determine the interrater reliability of potential predictor variables that may be used to construct a clinical decision rule for emergency computed tomography of the head in blunt head injury victims. ⋯ The clinicians in our study had a substantial level of agreement regarding most clinical criteria assessed in this large sample of patients with blunt head injury.