Clinical Study

Plain Radiography May Be Safely Omitted for Selected Major Trauma Patients Undergoing Whole Body CT: Database Study

Table 2

Time from arrival to whole-body CT (minutes).

No plain filmsPlain filmsMedian test of equality

Median3047Chi2 (df = 1) = 12.5
Mean (standard deviation)42.1 (41.7)69.7 (83.7)