Identifi cation of children at very low risk of clinically-important brain injuries after head trauma: a prospective cohort study

Nathan Kuppermann, James F Holmes, Peter S Dayan, John D Hoyle, Jr, Shireen M Atabaki, Richard Holubkov, Frances M Nadel, David Monroe, Rachel M Stanley, Dominic A Borgialli, Mohamed K Badawy, Je E Schunk, Kimberly S Quayle, Prashant Mahajan, Richard Lichenstein, Kathleen A Lillis, Michael G Tunik, Elizabeth S Jacobs, James M Callahan, Marc H Gorelick, Todd F Glass, Lois K Lee, Michael C Bachman, Arthur Cooper, Elizabeth C Powell, Michael J Gerardi, Kraig A Melville, J Paul Muizelaar, David H Wisner, Sally Jo Zuspan, J Michael Dean, Sandra L Wootton-Gorges, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN)*

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