UTILIZATION OF COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY FOR PEDIATRIC HEAD TRAUMA FROM 2007–2014 IN THE UNITED STATES: BEFORE AND AFTER PECARN CLINICAL DECISION RULES

The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) clinical prediction rules identify children at low risk of clinically important traumatic brain injury in whom computed tomography (CT) neuro-imaging can safely be avoided. Since publication in 2009, these rules have been externally validated and are widely used in the Emergency Department (ED) assessment of children with acute head trauma