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" Increase in Non-Contrast Computerized Tomography Scans of the Head Following Popular Media Stories About Head Injury "
Pirotte, Matthew J; Courtney, D Mark; Schmidt, Michael J; Mersey, Rachel Davis

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	934075
Doc. No	:	LA60d4b2fh
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Pirotte, Matthew J; Courtney, D Mark; Schmidt, Michael J; Mersey, Rachel Davis
Title & Author	:	Increase in Non-Contrast Computerized Tomography Scans of the Head Following Popular Media Stories About Head Injury [Article]\ Pirotte, Matthew J; Courtney, D Mark; Schmidt, Michael J; Mersey, Rachel Davis
Title of Periodical	:	Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/6
Date	:	2012
Abstract	:	Introduction: On March 18, 2009, actress Natasha Richardson died after a head injury. It is possiblethat the rate of patients presenting with mild head injury and receiving computed tomographies (CTs)may have been influenced by the Richardson event. We hypothesized that there was a statisticallysignificant increase in the rate of census-adjusted head CTs performed for mild trauma after March16, 2009, compared to prior to this date.