NCT01134744

Evaluating Validity of Clinical Criteria for Requesting Chest X-Rays in Trauma Patients

Study of Accuracy of Clinical Examination for Chest Trauma

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 385 (actual)
• Sponsor: Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to identify the clinical criteria for requesting a chest x-ray in a patient with blunt trauma and its findings such as clinical signs with a high sensitivity could be used in a larger study to codify the final criteria.

Detailed description

At present, a Chest x-ray is obtained from all trauma patients having suspicion to chest trauma. The indications for such radiographs are not well defined. This results in a large number of unnecessary chest radiographs being obtained. Our goal was to identify the clinical criteria for requesting a chest x-ray in a patient with blunt trauma and its findings such as clinical signs with a high sensitivity could be used in a larger study to codify the final criteria.

Conditions

• Chest Trauma

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-10-01
• Primary completion: 2007-10-01
• Completion: 2007-10-01
• First posted: 2010-06-02
• Last updated: 2010-06-22

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Iran