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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Emerg Med. 2013 Nov;20(11):1131–1138. doi: 10.1111/acem.12251

Table 3.

Base Case Output (per 1,000 Children With Blunt Torso Trauma)*

Events CDR Standard Care Difference
Number of abdominal CT scans obtained 343 447 104
Number of abdominal CT scans per IAI diagnosis 21 27 6
Number of missed IAI 0.59 0.09 –0.50
Total costs, $ 2,293,140 2,347,667 54,527
Incremental cost per additional IAI detected, $ 108,110

CDR = clinical decision rule; IAI = intraabdominal injury requiring acute intervention.

*

Estimated 2011 hospital costs.