Open AccessHead CT overuse in children with a mild traumatic brain injury within two Canadian emergency departments
Author(s) -
Martin Gariépy,
Jocelyn Gravel,
France Légaré,
Edward R. Melnick,
Erik P. Hess,
Holly O. Witteman,
Lania Lelaidier-Hould,
Catherine Truchon,
Louise Sauvé,
Patrick Plante,
Natalie Le Sage,
Patrick Archambault
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.55
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1918-1485
pISSN - 1205-7088
DOI - 10.1093/pch/pxy180
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , head trauma , pediatrics , emergency department , head injury , emergency medicine , traumatic brain injury , surgery , psychiatry
The validated Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Network (PECARN) rule helps determine the relevance of a head computerized tomography (CT) for children with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). We sought to estimate the potential overuse of head CT within two Canadian emergency departments (EDs).
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