Factors that predict discharge recommendations following paediatric mild traumatic brain injury
| Autor: | Rachel M. Roberts, Mark Pertini, Jessica Bunting |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Multivariate analysis Adolescent Traumatic brain injury Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Risk Assessment 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Predictive Value of Tests Risk Factors 030225 pediatrics Brain Injuries Traumatic Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Glasgow Coma Scale Child Retrospective Studies Univariate analysis Analysis of Variance Chi-Square Distribution Post-concussion syndrome business.industry 05 social sciences Infant Newborn Infant medicine.disease Patient Discharge Mechanism of injury Child Preschool Vomiting Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Brain injury. 31(8) |
| ISSN: | 1362-301X |
| Popis: | To investigate factors that predict discharge recommendations for children and adolescents who present to an Australian paediatric Emergency Department (ED) following a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).Retrospective data base analysis.The study retrospectively analysed an ED database to test the relationship between injury risk factors (symptoms, Glasgow Coma Scale, prior TBI, mechanism of injury and Computed Tomography scan), non-injury risk factors (sex, age, socio-economic status (SES)) and discharge recommendations of 2807 children and adolescents (0-18 years) who presented to a children's hospital ED over a three year period with mTBI.Univariate analyses indicated a statistically significant association of discharge recommendations with age, SES, mechanism of injury and vomiting. However, multivariate analyses indicated vomiting and mechanism of injury were the only statistically significant risk factor associated with discharge recommendations, when controlling for other risk factors.The current study suggests vomiting and mechanism of injury are the only risk factors predicting discharge recommendations for children and adolescents with mTBI. |
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