Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) Predicting Cervical Spine Injury (CSI) in Children: A Multi-Centered Case-Control Analysis Version 9/1/2006 Principal investigators:

Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts Lise Nigrovic, MD State University of New York, Buffalo Buffalo, New York Kathleen Lillis, MD Children's Hospital of Michigan Detroit, Michigan Curt Stankovic MD Prashant Mahajan, MD, MPH Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian/Columbia University New York, New York Maria Kwok, MD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA Aaron Donoghue, MD Children's National Medical Center Washington, DC Kathleen Brown, MD

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