The American journal of emergency medicine
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Although chest x-ray (CXR) is often used as a screening tool for thoracic injury in adult blunt trauma assessment, its screening performance is unclear. Using chest CT as the referent standard, we sought to determine the screening performance of CXR for injury. ⋯ When used alone, without other trauma screening criteria, CXR has poor screening performance for blunt thoracic injury.
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Letter Multicenter Study
Complications of serious acute conditions in children during the COVID-19 pandemic.