Should my elderly hospitalized patient with acute onset of altered mental status undergo stat head CT?

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY.
• ² Office of Academic Affiliations Advanced Research Fellow, Center of Innovation in Long-Term Services and Support, Providence Veterans Administration Medical Center, Providence, RI; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI.
• ³ Department of Neurology, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Great Neck, NY [email protected].