Clinical decision rule to prevent unnecessary chest X‐ray in patients with blunt multiple traumas

Since the diagnostic yield of chest X‐ray (CXR) is not high enough, when it is ordered for all the multiple trauma patients, this study was aimed to evaluate the relationship between clinical and CXR findings in order to formulate a clinical decision rule to prevent unnecessary CXR in these patients.

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