Professor, Emergency Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Dr. William R. Mower III, MD
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William Mower is an expert in the field of Emergency Medicine. He attended University of Utah School of Medicine. Doctor William R. Mower III, MD is a published doctor and has 85 publications published. The lastest was: 'Evaluating bias and variability in diagnostic test reports.' He accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Factors associated with decision to hospitalize emergency department patients with skin and soft tissue infection.
- Diagnostic Yields, Charges, and Radiation Dose of Chest Imaging in Blunt Trauma Evaluations.
- Analysis of Emergency Department Visits for Palpitations (from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey).
- NEXUS chest: validation of a decision instrument for selective chest imaging in blunt trauma.
- Association of Pyuria and Clinical Characteristics With the Presence of Urinary Tract Infection Among Patients With Acute Nephrolithiasis.
- Clinically suspected coagulopathy in blunt head trauma.
- Prevalence of herniation and intracranial shift on cranial tomography in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage and a normal neurologic examination.
- Predictors of 30-day serious events in older patients with syncope.
- Clinical prediction rules for identifying adults at very low risk for intra-abdominal injuries after blunt trauma.
- How (un)useful is the pelvic ring stability examination in diagnosing mechanically unstable pelvic fractures in blunt trauma patients?
- Can patients with brain herniation on cranial computed tomography have a normal neurologic exam?
- Radiation doses among blunt trauma patients: assessing risks and benefits of computed tomographic imaging.
- Sensitivity of noncontrast cranial computed tomography for the emergency department diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Low diagnostic yield of electrocardiogram testing in younger patients with syncope.
- Re: clinical decision rules and cervical spine injury.
- Lack of evidence to support routine digital rectal examination in pediatric trauma patients.
- Poor test characteristics for the digital rectal examination in trauma patients.
- Older age predicts short-term, serious events after syncope.
- External validation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule.
- Evaluation of a modified prediction instrument to identify significant pediatric intracranial injury after blunt head trauma.
- Effect of intoxication among blunt trauma patients selected for head computed tomography scanning.
- Selective chest radiography in blunt trauma: who cares?
- Intracranial pathology in elders with blunt head trauma.
- Injuries missed by limited computed tomographic imaging of patients with cervical spine injuries.
- Impact of patient race on receiving head CT during blunt head injury evaluation.
- Distracting injuries in patients with vertebral injuries.
- Picking a winner among decision aids.
- Comparison of the Canadian C-Spine rule and NEXUS decision instrument in evaluating blunt trauma patients for cervical spine injury.
- Tetanus immunity and physician compliance with tetanus prophylaxis practices among emergency department patients presenting with wounds.
- Interrater reliability of criteria used in assessing blunt head injury patients for intracranial injuries.
- Prospective evaluation of criteria for obtaining thoracolumbar radiographs in trauma patients.
- Validity of a decision rule to reduce cervical spine radiography in elderly patients with blunt trauma.
- The reliability of vital sign measurements.
- Nonconcordance between Clinical and Head CT Findings: The Specter of Overdiagnosis.
- When to image cervical spine injuries.
- Low-risk criteria for cervical-spine radiography in blunt trauma: a prospective study.
- Neurocysticercosis in radiographically imaged seizure patients in U.S. emergency departments.
- Appropriateness of rabies postexposure prophylaxis treatment for animal exposures. Emergency ID Net Study Group.
- Derivation of a Decision Instrument for Selective Chest Radiography in Blunt Trauma.
- The association of antimicrobial resistance with cure and quality of life among women with acute uncomplicated cystitis.
- Validity of a set of clinical criteria to rule out injury to the cervical spine in patients with blunt trauma. National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study Group.
- EMERGEncy ID NET: an emergency department-based emerging infections sentinel network.
- Evaluating bias and variability in diagnostic test reports.
- Misrepresentation of research citations among medical school faculty applicants.
- EMERGEncy ID NET: an emergency department-based emerging infections sentinel network. The EMERGEncy ID NET Study Group.
- Selective cervical spine radiography in blunt trauma: methodology of the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS).
- Pulse oximetry as a fifth vital sign in emergency geriatric assessment.
- Emergency radiology practice and research beyond the millennium. The American Society of Emergency Radiology.
- Interrater reliability of cervical spine injury criteria in patients with blunt trauma.
- Update on emerging infections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Influenza: ED considerations for the 1997-98 season.
- Effect of intraluminal thrombus on abdominal aortic aneurysm wall stress.
- Psychosocial difficulties and emergency department use.
- Pulse oximetry as a fifth pediatric vital sign.
- A comparison of pulse oximetry and respiratory rate in patient screening.
- Misrepresentation of research publications among emergency medicine residency applicants.
- Advance directives. Effect of type of directive on physicians' therapeutic decisions.
- Stress distributions in vascular aneurysms: factors affecting risk of aneurysm rupture.
- Effect of routine emergency department triage pulse oximetry screening on medical management.
- Acute abdominal conditions in patients with leukemia.
- Postsplenectomy infection in patients with chronic leukemia.
- Epidemiology of thoracolumbar spine injury in blunt trauma.
- Simple geometric characteristics fail to reliably predict abdominal aortic aneurysm wall stresses.
- A prospective multicenter study of cervical spine injury in children.
- Test performance of the individual NEXUS low-risk clinical screening criteria for cervical spine injury.
- Distribution and patterns of blunt traumatic cervical spine injury.
- Epidemiology of cervical spine injury victims.
- Use of flexion-extension radiographs of the cervical spine in blunt trauma.
- Use of plain radiography to screen for cervical spine injuries.
- Out-of-hospital cervical spine immobilization: making policy in the absence of definitive information.
- Regarding "thrombus within an aortic aneurysm does not reduce pressure on the aneurysm wall".
- Etiology of bloody diarrhea among patients presenting to United States emergency departments: prevalence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and other enteropathogens.
- Distracting painful injuries associated with cervical spinal injuries in blunt trauma.
- Spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality: results of the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study in blunt cervical trauma.
- Selective tomographic imaging of patients with new-onset seizure disorders.
- Developing a clinical decision instrument to rule out intracranial injuries in patients with minor head trauma: methodology of the NEXUS II investigation.
- Variability in computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in patients with cervical spine injuries.
- Defining "therapeutically inconsequential" head computed tomographic findings in patients with blunt head trauma.
- National Emergency X-radiography Utilization Study: doing what''s right for your patients.
- Performance of a decision rule to predict need for computed tomography among children with blunt head trauma.
- Developing a decision instrument to guide computed tomographic imaging of blunt head injury patients.
- Epidemiology of blunt head injury victims undergoing ED cranial computed tomographic scanning.
- Prevalence and prognosis of traumatic intraventricular hemorrhage in patients with blunt head trauma.
- Epidemiology of animal exposures presenting to emergency departments.
- Decision instrument for the isolation of pneumonia patients with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis admitted through US emergency departments.
Schools
University of Utah
University Of Ut Affl Hosps
University Of California Los Angeles
Doctors Specialties
- Emergency Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Education
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UCLA Medical Center -
University of Utah -
University of Utah School of Medicine
Hospital
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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
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