Clinical policy: neuroimaging and decisionmaking in adult mild traumatic brain injury in the acute setting.

Abstract [Jagoda AS, Cantrill SV, Wears RL, Valadka A, Gallagher EJ, Gottesfeld SH, Pietrzak MP, Bolden J, Bruns JJ Jr, Zimmerman R. Clinical policy: neuroimaging and decisionmaking in adult mild traumatic brain injury in the acute setting. Ann Emerg Med. August 2002;40:231-249.]

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