Impact of patient race on receiving head CT during blunt head injury evaluation.

Objectives: Prior evidence suggests that physicians may alter process of care based on race/ethnicity. The objective of this study was to determine whether race/ethnicity predicts whether a patient receives computed tomography of the head (head CT) during evaluation of blunt head injury.

Methods: This was a nonconcurrent cohort study set in an emergency department of a Level 1 trauma center in a university medical center.