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| CHRISTOPHER C BLACKMORESummaryAffiliation: University of Washington Country: USA Publications
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Evidence-based imaging evaluation of the cervical spine in traumaC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology and Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Avenue, Box 359728, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Neuroimaging Clin N Am 13:283-91. 2003..The high-risk cervical spine criteria used at the author's center seem to be valid for identifying appropriate patients for initial imaging with CT...- Resource cost analysis of cervical spine trauma radiographyC C Blackmore
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Ave, Box 359728, Seattle, WA 98104 8560, USA
Radiology 220:581-7. 2001.... - Defining quality in radiologyC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology and Health Services, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Am Coll Radiol 4:217-23. 2007..This essay is a discussion of the definition of radiology quality and the implications of that definition... - Evidence-based radiology and the ACR Appropriateness CriteriaC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology, University of Washington Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
J Am Coll Radiol 3:505-9. 2006..In this article, we provide concrete suggestions for improving the evidence basis of the Appropriateness Criteria... - Optimizing the interpretation of CT for appendicitis: modeling health utilities for clinical practiceC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology and Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Am Coll Radiol 3:115-21. 2006..In this report, the authors demonstrate how the optimal interpretation of appendiceal computed tomography (CT) can be determined and how it varies in different clinical scenarios... - Physician assistants in academic radiology: the Harborview experienceC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
J Am Coll Radiol 1:410-4. 2004..As a result of the success of our program, we believe that physician assistants can have an important role in radiology practice... - Predicting major hemorrhage in patients with pelvic fractureC Craig Blackmore
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
J Trauma 61:346-52. 2006..The objective of this study is to use information available upon presentation to the trauma center to develop a clinical prediction rule to identify subjects with pelvic fracture who are at high risk of major hemorrhage... - Clinical prediction rules in trauma imaging: who, how, and why?C Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology and Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Box 359728, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Radiology 235:371-4. 2005..In this review, several examples from trauma imaging are used to demonstrate the development, validation, and use of clinical prediction rules... - Assessment of volume of hemorrhage and outcome from pelvic fractureC Craig Blackmore
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle 98104, USA
Arch Surg 138:504-8; discussion 508-9. 2003..Measurement of pelvic hemorrhage on computed tomographic (CT) scans can estimate the pelvic fracture component of total patient blood loss and predict the need for angiography... - Critically assessing the radiology literatureC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Avenue, Box 359728, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Acad Radiol 11:134-40. 2004..Finally, discussion centers on the strength of evidence for both positive and negative findings in a research study... - Evidence-based radiology: review and disseminationL Santiago Medina
Department of Radiology, Miami Children s Hospital, 3100 SW 62nd Ave, Miami, FL 33155, USA
Radiology 244:331-6. 2007..Although radiology has made important progress in this field in recent years, the specialty is still behind other specialties that have been at the forefront of evidence-based medicine in the past decade... - Evidence-based approach to using CT in spinal traumaF A Mann
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98109 2499, USA
Eur J Radiol 48:39-48. 2003..Although there are no clinical prediction rules validated outside of the cervical spine, these proven capabilities have been extrapolated to the thoracolumbar spine... - Multidetector computed tomography pulmonary angiography: does arm position affect pulmonary artery enhancement?Martin L D Gunn
Department of Radiology, Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand
J Comput Assist Tomogr 32:778-82. 2008..To evaluate whether arm position affects pulmonary artery enhancement in computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA)... - Radiographic and clinical predictors of bladder rupture in blunt trauma patients with pelvic fractureGreg Avey
Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Box 359960, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Acad Radiol 13:573-9. 2006..In addition to hematuria, specific pelvic injury patterns are associated with bladder rupture. If validated, a clinical prediction rule derived from this data has the potential to guide the care of the blunt trauma patient... - Conventional radiography, rapid MR imaging, and conventional MR imaging for low back pain: activity-based costs and reimbursementDarryl T Gray
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, 146 N Canal St, Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98103, USA
Radiology 227:669-80. 2003..To incorporate personnel and equipment use time in an activity-based cost comparison of conventional radiography and conventional and rapid magnetic resonance (MR) imaging for low back pain (LBP)... - Cervical spine fractures in patients 65 years and older: a clinical prediction rule for blunt traumaLawrence D Bub
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Box 357115, 1959 NE Pacific St, RR 215, Seattle, WA 98195 7115, USA
Radiology 234:143-9. 2005..To determine clinical predictors of cervical spine fracture in the elderly and to develop a clinical prediction rule to guide appropriate imaging in high-risk patients... - Therapeutic impact of CT of the appendix in a community hospital emergency departmentRobert O Nathan
Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Ave, Box 359728, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 191:1102-6. 2008..The purpose of this study was to prospectively evaluate the therapeutic impact of CT of the appendix in a community hospital... - Clearing the cervical spine in obtunded patientsTyler J Harris
School of Medicine, University of Washington, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 33:1547-53. 2008..Retrospective cohort study... - Indeterminate CT angiography in blunt thoracic trauma: is CT angiography enough?Marla Sammer
Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Box 357115, Seattle, WA 98195 7115, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 189:603-8. 2007..The secondary objective was to devise a classification scheme for mediastinal hematomas... - Observational studies in radiologyC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center and Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, Box 359728, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 183:1203-8. 2004 - Screening for aortic injury with chest radiography and clinical factorsJared R Kirkham
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, WA 98104, USA
Emerg Radiol 14:211-7. 2007.... - Applying evidence-based imaging to policy: the Washington State experienceC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology and Center for Healthcare Solutions, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98111, USA
J Am Coll Radiol 6:366-71. 2009..Under the Washington model, stronger evidence for the effectiveness, safety, and cost-effectiveness of imaging will be required for the dissemination of new technologies and for reimbursement for some existing imaging approaches... - Predicting urethral injury from pelvic fracture patterns in male patients with blunt traumaAmaya M Basta
Department of Radiology, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
J Urol 177:571-5. 2007..We determined the specific anterior pelvic injury locations associated with urethral injury... - Quality improvement in radiology: white paper report of the Sun Valley Group meetingC Daniel Johnson
Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
J Am Coll Radiol 3:544-9. 2006..Among these is a formal educational program for all radiologists interested in implementing a quality improvement program within their practice, to be hosted by the ACR... - Do initial radiographs agree with crash site mechanism of injury in pelvic ring disruptions? A pilot studyKen F Linnau
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98104 2499, USA
J Orthop Trauma 21:375-80. 2007..Our objective was to compare injury direction determined from anteroposterior (AP) pelvic radiographs with injury forces determined from crash site investigation... - Web-based image review and data acquisition for multiinstitutional researchC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, Box 359728, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 180:1243-6. 2003..Program testing revealed seamless remote image interpretation and data acquisition...