“Irritable Hip”: Diagnosis in the Emergency Department. A Descriptive Study Over One Year
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Seven year follow up of children presenting to the accident and emergency department with irritable hip.
OBJECTIVE To assess an established protocol for managing children with irritable hip in the accident and emergency department. METHODS Retrospective seven year follow up of all children managed under an established hip pain protocol. The main outcome measure was of failure of the protocol to identify serious pathology. RESULTS A total of 103 children met the criteria for assessment using th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cureus
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2168-8184
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.3481