Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Volume 18, Number 5, August 2017
West
Open Access at www.westjem.com
ISSN 1936-900X
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health Indexed in MEDLINE
Emergency Department Operations 780 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Utilization in an Emergency Department Observation Unit Y SĂĄnchez, BJ Yun, AM Prabhakar, M Glover, BA White, TI Benzer, AS Raja
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Geriatrics 785 Trends and Characteristics of Emergency Department Visits for Fall-Related Injuries in Older Adults, 2003-2010 KN Shankar, SW Liu, DA Ganz Neurology 794 Prevalence of Intracranial Hemorrhage after Blunt Head Trauma in Patients on Pre-injury Dabigatran JA Chenoweth, MA Johnson, L Shook, ME Sutter, DK Nishijima, JF Holmes Provider Workforce 800 Congratulations, You’re Pregnant! Now About Your Shifts . . . :The State of Maternity Leave Attitudes and Culture in EM CZ MacVane, ML Fix, TD Strout, KD Zimmerman, RB Bloch, CL Hein
Societal Impact on Emergency Care 811 Emergency Department Use across 88 Small Areas after Affordable Care Act Implementation in Illinois J Feinglass, AJ Cooper, K Rydland, ES Powell, M McHugh, R Kang, SM Dresden Treatment Protocol Assessment 821 Head CT for Minor Head Injury Presenting to the Emergency Department in the Era of Choosing Wisely J DeAngelis, V Lou, T Li, H Tran, P Bremjit, M McCann, P Crane, CMC Jones Education 830 Emergency Physician-performed Transesophageal Echocardiography in Simulated Cardiac Arrest DV Byars, J Tozer, JM Joyce, MJ Vitto, L Taylor, T Kayagil, M Jones, M Bishop, B Knapp, D Evans
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Emergency Department Administration 835 Increased Computed Tomography Utilization in the Emergency Department and Its Association with Hospital Admission MF Bellolio, HC Heien, LR Sangaralingham, MM Jeffery, RL Campbell, D Cabrera, ND Shah, EP Hess Contents continued on page iv
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