Importance In recent years, there has been an exponential increase in the research guiding
pediatric mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) clinical management, in large part because of …

ALARA: is there a cause for alarm? Reducing radiation risks... : Current Opinion in Pediatrics
ALARA: is there a cause for alarm? Reducing radiation risks from computed tomography …

Importance Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), or concussion, in children is a rapidly growing
public health concern because epidemiologic data indicate a marked increase in the …

Objectives Predictive analytics in emergency care has mostly been limited to the use of
clinical decision rules (CDR s) in the form of simple heuristics and scoring systems. In the …

Background CT imaging of head-injured children has risks of radiation-induced malignancy.
Our aim was to identify children at very low risk of clinically-important traumatic brain injuries …

Background: There is controversy about which children with minor head injury need to
undergo computed tomography (CT). We aimed to develop a highly sensitive clinical …

Background: A quarter of all patients presenting to emergency departments are children.
Although there are several large, well-conducted studies on adults enabling accurate …

Primary objective: To identify factors associated with not seeking medical care for traumatic
brain injury (TBI). Research Design: Internet survey. Methods and procedures: The survey …

Many children present to emergency departments following head injury (HI), with a small
number at risk of avoidable poor outcome. Difficulty identifying such children, coupled with …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Head trauma is common in children. In the absence of evidence-based
recommendations, variations exist in the initial emergency department (ED) evaluation and …